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THE PRE-FACE. 

The pre-face is a face put on previous to being seen 
all over. 

Like many other faces, this one is sometimes very de- 
ceptive and misleading. 

In matrimony, the face put on previous to marriage 
is usually one of smiles, pleasant words and attractive 
personal appearance. 

But to live with, it may be uninteresting and disap- 
pointing. 

This is true of men as well as women. 

The pre-face of a book has features, sometimes, like 
trying to influence a witness to testify in the author's 
favor; or like talking to a juryman before hearing the 
evidence. 

The true character of this publication cannot be indi- 
cated by a pre-face. 

Only reading will tell it — and it will be highly gratify- 
ing if clear to all after this. 

A verdict in one's favor is always pleasing, but to try to 
influence one in advance is presuming upon the weakness 
of public opinion. 

The writer is fully aware, without being told, that this 
work is far from perfect. That four times as many ideas 



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might be expressed in one-fourth the space, but not 
knowing that even this would insure success, the public 
is invited to an early inspection, to see whether further 
effort would bring better reward. 

If more time and thought should be consumed, and 
then the end was failure, it would only add to the size of 
the disappointment. 

As interesting the public is an experiment that only 
trying can decide, the author hopes to survive this effort. 

Buxton, N. D., 26th of February, 1898. 



CHAPTER I. 
THE OBJECT OF LIFE. 

The object of life is the attainment of happiness. 

Happiness, like everything else, depends upon and is 
governed by natural law. 

It depends upon capacity to meet or subdue want. 

The great problem constantly on the blackboard of life 
for solution is not how to get rid of our wants entirely, 
but how to meet and subdue them. 

But a single glance at this subject is sufficient to reveal 
its enormous size and importance. It is so large and 
peculiar it can only be handled in a limited and peculiar 
way ; principally in sections and small pieces. It would 
be impossible to take the subject of want all in, and view 
it on all sides at once, or during a life. 

To solve the probl ^m of how to meet and subdue our 
wants is about like trying to stand on a round ball in the 
middle of an ocean; if the ball could be overcome the 
ocean could not ; so between the two, the one trying to 
stand or balance in this way would be kept unceasingly 
busy bobbing around both above and below the waves. 



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This is the way it is, in trying to solve the never ending, 
ever changing demands of want ; one minute we are on 
top, and the next our wants are on top of us. 

The subject of want is not only an exceedingly large 
and peculiar one, but in many respects a delicate one to 
handle. It is not always pleasant or safe to approach 
others on the nature of their wants or their capacity to 
meet them, or even suggest, when we know what they 
want, what they should do. And it is equally unpleasant 
at times to have suggestions made to us about ours. 
The size and peculiar nature of this subject is self-evident ; 
while want is a state man is constantly in, and contending 
with in some form to meet or subdue, at the same time 
it is dangerous to overdo the subduing process. 

When a man subdues his wants, or anyone else does it 
for him, so they go off and quit coming around any more, 
his occupation is gone, and he has to go too ; he is perma- 
nently broken up. 

When a man gets so he don't want anything, that is the 
end of him ; he has to take up a residence in another 
world. He is not allowed to lie around or even remain 
on top of earth without wants. 

This seems rather strange and sad, but it is true ; just 
as soon as a man quits calling on friends and neighbors, 
he is dropped out of sight ; and the hardest part of it is, he 



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is never sure of getting what he wants when around and 
does call for it. 

Our wants are peculiar, and noticeable principally on 
account of their size, great variety and frequency, the 
length of time they stay, and how we feel before and after 
meeting them. Some only come occasionally, but when 
once here stay to the end of life ; others drop around regu- 
larly every day, apparently to make friendly calls, but 
have .to be subdued before they can be induced to subside. 
They appear mild and gentle enough when they ap- 
proach, but if not soon given attention they commence 
grumbling, and if not promptly waited on they kick, 
and after this hit so hard a good able-bodied man cannot 
stand them off or stand up against them only a short time. 
The best he can do when in good health is to hold them 
down a few hours; then they get on top and hold him 
down till he cries enough and gets up and treats them to 
everything at his command. 

Wants do not always come single handed and alone, 
but sometimes in swarms and droves. Neither do they 
assault only one place at a time, but often hit the outside, 
the inside, the front and rear all at once. 

There is one that calls us out of a warm bed in the 
morning to get breakfast. This is no sooner over and 
the dishes washed than the same thing suggests it will 
soon be time for dinner. This is out of the way, and the 



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floor swept, and the same persistent thing suggests, "you 
must be thinking about supper/' And after waiting on 
it all day, it is an actual fact that it often comes around at 
bedtime, and tries to get subdued the fourth time in the 
same day ; and would succeed if there was anything at 
hand with which to do it or the doctor had not ordered a 
fast. 

No wonder life is called a struggle, when every live be- 
ing has a pack of wants following him like a pack of de- 
vouring wolves. 

The constitution of the United States guarantees to 
every man, woman and child "the pursuit of happiness," 
but it does not guarantee that a single one will ever over- 
take and capture the smallest part of it. 

As everything is made the subject of legislation, from 
the standard of values to department stores, an amend- 
ment should be made to the constitution of the United 
States, not only guaranteeing the ptfrsuit of happiness 
but the capture of the much-run-after object. 

Here is an opportunity for some enterprising reformer 
to supply a deficiency in the foundation of our govern* 
ment that would be appreciated by all. 



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CHAPTER II. 
WHAT WANT REALLY IS. 

Want is the motive power that moves the long and 
varied train of life and keeps all in motion. 

We find as passengers on this train everybody and 
everything. Not only the beggar is here, worrying him- 
self and others, because he is a beggar, but the millionaire 
is an anxious and troubled passenger on the train of life, 
worrying along with gold for baggage ; worrying about 
that which he has and about getting more. 

The preacher, the teacher, the dude, the politician, the 
law maker, the law breaker, the sick, the well, the pure, 
the vicious, kings, queens, judges, presidents, the gay, 
the sorrowing, the infant drawing its first breath and old 
age drawing its last are all passengers on the long and 
varied train of life, whirling and thundering over the 
track of time, drawn by the never ceasing, ever puffing 
engine of want. 

There are no stops or stations along this highway ; pas- 
sengers stepping from the train of life do so with it run- 
ning at full speed ; with a speed so great that when they 
step off they are hurled six feet in the ground to stay. 



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Friends groan and moan when they see fellow passengers 
alight, but rush on with the flying train, leaving those 
who quit the journey to be cared for, they know not 
whether by imps or angels. On it rushes, on it rumbles ; 
into forests of darkness, over swamps of evil, through 
fields of peril, up mountains of labor, into the valley of 
death, it crashes and plunges. 

Notwithstanding its speed and dangers, more get on 
than off ; everyone seems anxious to take a limited ticket 
on this through flyer. Why? Because it has Faith for 
a headlight and Hope for a signal behind. 



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CHAPTER III. 
NATURAL LAW. 

If happiness is the object of life, and its foundation is 
natural law, to attain the greatest of all objects, the one 
that is the light of life, it is necessary to look into and 
study natural law. 

The foundation of natural law is, 

THE NATURE OF NATURE. . 

Like everything else, nature is founded on natural law. 

Its foundation is the Universal Trinity. 

Nature is a very large Trinity within itself. 

Its parts are the animate, the inanimate and conscious 
animate. 

The inanimate embraces the earth — all that grows from 
and is deposited in it. 

The animate embraces all living things that move. 

The conscious animate is that part of nature known 
as MAN. 

This is the crowning part, the part which towers above 
the unthinking like a lofty mountain above the level of a 



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low plain. This part is not only aware of its own ex- 
istence and that of surrounding objects, but possesses the 
quality of being able to investigate and appropriate the 
other parts to itself as well as sit in judgment upon itself 
in so doing. 

It reflects upon the object of its creation and the nature 
and object of the creator in creating it. 

It possesses the power of weighing things inferior and 
superior, natural and spiritual, finite and infinite. 

The conscious animate, or man part of nature, is that 
quality or principle in nature through which the other 
parts are made known. 

Through the trinity of nature we trace the trinity of all 
other things. All things belong to nature, bear its im- 
press and are governed by natural law. 



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CHAPTER IV. 
THE UNIVERSAL TRINITY. 

This is the foundation of all foundations, including 
nature and natural law. 

This is the first and greatest of all subjects. 

This is the reason why all other subjects exist. 

This is the light and power behind life. 

It is impossible for anything to have a beginning or an 
ending without coming from and returning back into this 
Trinity. 

This being the first cause of all, it is the most important 
of all things to look into and study. 

THE UNIVERSAL TRINITY 

is founded on the infinite and universal principle that the 
union of two different bodies or substances creates a third, 
the nature of the third being like the two united. 

It is also a law of the universal trinity that all things 
have parentage. 

It is also a law of the universal trinity that everything 
is a trinity in nature, because it springs from a trinity. 



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HIE FAMILY CIRCLE IS A TRINITY. 

Its members arc the father, the mother and the off- 
spring. Without these parts united it is not a perfect 
family circle, it is only a part of a circle; to be a complete 
circle it must be a trinity. 

MAN IS A COMPOUND TRINITY. 

In nature he is earthly, animal and spiritual; moral, 
mental and physical. 

His beginning is a trinity and his ending is a trinity. 
He comes forth through inception, conception and birth, 
and passes away through infancy, manhood and old age. 

TIME IS A TRINITY. 

Its parts are the past, the present aw the future. 

As the union of two different bodies or conditions 
creates a third, the third being like the two united, if a man 
unites himself with the Prince of Light the fruit of the 
union is good ; if with the Princ2 of Darkness the fruit of 
the- union is evil, and the spirit of evil is manifested instead 
of that of goodness. 

"By their fruits ye shall know them. ,, 

"Tor of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of bramble 
bushes gather they grapes," 



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Never was natural law more clearly recognized and 
taught than by the Holy Savior. 

He taught that a union with good produces good fruii, 

and with evil, evil fruit. This is natural law in the purest 

and simplest form. The fruit of any union is a trinity, 

but in nature it may be exactly opposite. 

It makes a vast difference with what we unite and what 
unites with us. 

Here is where good judgment and good sense are of 
superlative value. 

Success in life depends upon being a judge of propei 
unions ; happiness and misery are embraced in this, which 
is true of matrimony, politics, religion, business and 
friends. 

That with which we unite has an influence and affects 
us either for good or bad ; hence the importance of wise 
unions. 



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CHAPTER V. 
THE KEY TO THE FRONT DOOR. 

Please look at this key and see where it belongs. 

It is the key to the front, not the back, door. 

The front door is the proper entrance to a house; all 
intelligent people go there and press the button on the 
outside, if there is one, then wait for those on the inside 
to do the rest. 

NOTICE. 

Do not pound at the back end of the house, but ring 
the bell in front. The back door is bolted on the inside, 
the windows are fastened down and the domestic is out 
making calls. Your humble servant is in charge of the 
front door to-day ; walk in, have a seat, and if you please 
let us look over and talk over the general arrangement of 
the great mansion in which we find ourselves. 

Natural law is the key to the front door of all knowl- 
edge and all development. Therefore, the study of 
nature is the only way to unlock the order of creation, 
gain knowledge and make advancement. 



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Nature held sway as the only teacher long centuries 
before the printing press and books existed, and it will 
continue to hold sway long centuries after they are for- 
gotten and gone. 

The study of nature is like the study of music ; after 
learning one part on its key board it is not so hard to 
get the second, and so on. Everything grows easier and 
clearer through study and practice. 



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CHAPTER VI. 
MY EXPERIENCE WITH MUSIC. 

I am not a musician or even a small part of one. I 
took up the violin when a boy, but was not long in be- 
coming convinced that the world and all the neighbors 
would be just as happy and well off if I laid it down 
again. 

I caught the musical fever from hearing a neighbor 
boy play "Old Dan Tucker." This was the only piece 
he pretended to, or could, play, but to me it was wonder- 
ful and delightful. 

He said it was very easy to master the violin and a very 
pleasant business to carry on after once mastered. Tak- 
ing his word for it, I walked twelve miles in the mud 
and purchased what was represented as a very fine instru- 
ment. A complete outfit was triumphantly secured for 
four dollars and carried home. The bow cost one dollar 
and fifty cents, and the main instrument, with strings, 
keys, bridge, sounding post and tail piece thrown in, cost 
two dollars and fifty cents. 

Every one who saw it, and especially after hearing it, 
said the bow was a great bargain, but that two dollars 



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and fifty cents in good money was altogether too much 
for the main piece of furniture — notwithstanding the free 
trimmings. 

The only one in the neighborhood to go to for instruc- 
tion was the boy who played "Old Dan Tucker." It was 
a mile over marshes and through woods to reach this 
musical genius, but no time was lost in getting to him. 

He strung up my prize instrument, tuned it, and rosined 
my new bow. He did not play by note; he said notes 
were only intended for those who did not know enough 
to play without them. That where one had talent of his 
own, notes were only in the way. He* played by what he 
called "rote." 

He showed me just how many times to draw the bow 
on an open string; which string to draw it on; which 
finger to put down first and where to put it, and so on, 
till he had shown me every move to make from start to 
finish. I still regarded him with wonder and admiration. 
This instruction pertained solely and alone to playing 
"Old Dan Tucker"; it could not be transferred and used 
anywhere else, or for any other purpose. 

Then we commenced, and "Old Dan Tucker" never 
got a worse tuckering on earth than we gave him before 
letting up. We tuckered away for hours. At the end 
of this first lesson and effort the perspiration poured off 



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me as from a plantation slave picking cotton under a hot 
sun. 

My instructor was full of high ambition and pride; he 
wanted me to learn to play what he called a "full tune" 
the first time I took up an instrument. He wanted it for 
two reasons. He said it would be a good advertisement 
for him as a teacher, as well as a fine showing for my 
talent ; that if I could do this, it would "surprise and de- 
light the old folks at home/* and they would be more 
willing to have me practice in the house ; that they would 
buy all necessary fiddle strings, thinking that some day I 
might be a great player. He spoke from experience and 
wanted to steer me clear of breakers, as he was driven to 
the barn to enjoy his talent. I fully agreed with him; 
then we sawed away more enthusiastically than ever on 
"Old Dan Tucker." 

When ready to go, after my first lesson and effort, he 
pronounced me in every way a promising and satisfactory 
pupil ; in fact, up to his idea of what a beginner should be. 
Before leaving, he went all over my new instrument to see 
that it was in perfect tune ; he put more rosin on my new 
bow, and started me off in the best possible condition to 
"surprise and delight the old folks at home." 

But before reaching home I fell down, and some of the 
keys slipped; all plans vanished. I could not tune a 
violin any more than I could fly. So I immediately re- 



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turned to get my instructor to go home with me and take 
his own sweet instrument along. My efforts were suc- 
cessful. 

When everything was pronounced in order, we started 
in to "surprise and delight the old folks." We succeeded 
in surprising them, but they did not say a word about 
being delighted. 

Before leaving me alone again, in possession of a new 
instrument, he gave me very complete instructions about 
keeping it. I supposed the best way to keep it was not to 
put a chattel mortgage on it. But this was not what he 
wished to tell me. He said the violin was a very delicate 
as well as a very sweet instrument ; that it could not be 
exposed to heat or cold without affecting it, any more 
than a delicate girl could sleep with her feet out of a 
window in a cold room without getting cold and making 
her feel out of tune next day — in short, unstrung. That 
it should be kept dry, but not allowed to hang too 
directly over a red hot cook stove. That it improved by 
age and use ; that in reality, where one was able, it should 
be put in a silk bag and kept in a box, but not the wood- 
box behind the stove. 

He cautioned me very particularly about painting and 
varnishing too often ; all he said was committed to mem- 
ory, and not having a silk bag or any particular kind of 
box, I wrapped it in one of my best shirts and laid it 
carefully away in a large trunk all by itself. 



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After he had gone, I asked my mother how she was 
impressed with my instructor. She said all the players 
she had ever seen or heard took hold of the lower end of 
the bow instead of grasping it with the full hand in the 
middle ; that they did not stamp their feet hard enough to 
break a hole in a barn floor or spit on the keys to make 
them stick. 

This did not indicate to me, however, which style she 
liked best, that of my instructor or those she had heard 
and seen previously. 

The next night, bright and early, I went to take a 
second lesson ; or rather put in the second night on the 
first. We sawed on the same old tune till tired out. 

My instructor said he was not old enough to know 
whether age improved the violin or not, but if there was 
anything in use doing it, we would have two of the best 
fiddles in the United States inside of six months. It is 
not bragging, if I do say it myself, never did instructor 
and pupil work harder to succeed. I was proud of him, 
and he was the first one who ever seemed perfectly bound 
Up in me. After about a year of constant practice on this 
one piece, by not allowing our minds to wander and get 
m anything else, we had "Old Dan Tucker" down to 
what we both agreed was a "fine point." 

I could make every flourish and quirk just when he 
did, and as he did, including time-keeping with both 



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feet. We were like two pulleys on one shaft run by the 
same belt. We were Siamese twins in music, joined to- 
gether by fiddle-strings instead of a string of flesh. 

After becoming master of "Old Dan Tucker," he sur- 
prised me one day by saying, "I have caught another 
tune." 

"Where and how did you catch it?" I asked. 

He had such perfect confidence in me he would tell 
me where he caught everything. He had been to a coun- 
try dance, and while looking perfectly natural and not 
showing any signs on the surface that anything unusual 
or important was going on inside his head, he memorized 
one of the player's best pieces through his ear, without 
seeing it with his eyes, and brought it all home with him 
in his mind-in perfect order. 

The name of this piece was, "O Jennie, My Toes Are 
Sore." 

I thought I should go wild when I heard it; it was 
different from "Old Dan Tucker." It had tweedle dums 
and tweedle dees all through and over it. It had a high 
part and a low 7 part, and he put in a large number of varia- 
tions, which I supposed at the time were regular parts of 
the "new tune," but found out later were his own im- 
provisations. 

I had become such an ape at imitating him, we played 
this piece together in a surprisingly short time. All he 



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had to do was to make a motion and I duplicated it. If 
he scratched his head, I scratched mine. If he swung on 
a high limb or head down in the cage, I did the same. 
Whatever string he sawed or fingered, I sawed and fin- 
gered exactly the same. Whatever gesture he made I 
repeated it, and felt that in so doing perfection itself was 
being reflected. 

We were so pleased and delighted in being able to play 
what he called "two tunes" that we looked for a third, 
and in addition to "Old Dan Tucker" and "O Jennie, 
My Toes Are Sore," we captured "The Camels Are Com- 
ing" ; then "Haste to the Wedding" ; then "The Soldier's 
Joy." Things came so easy and fast now, the first thing 
we knew we were playing "The Devil's Dream," "Fish- 
er's Hornpipe" and "Money Musk" at country dances, 
and unwinding "The Grand Opera Reel" under his in- 
terpretation and leadership. 

He finally became master of such a master mind that 
he could stand on the outside of a hall with his ear to the 
keyhole, and carry away a whole night's program without 
being detected or suspected of anything wrong. He 
might be crammed full of new pieces taken in through his 
ear at a keyhole and walk off perfectly sober and natural 
without staggering, so great was his capacity and self- 
possession. 

As before stated, after getting the first piece it is not so 



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hard to get the second, and so on. Everything grows 
easier through study and practice, whether it is following 
a country boy's fingers on a violin to learn "Old Dan 
Tucker," or delving into the depths of nature to find the 
key to the front door of knowledge and development. 

After getting the first and simplest piece on nature's 
keyboard, although it may be imperfect, if perseverance 
and labor are continued, it opens the way to the second, 
which acts as a light to enable the first to be seen more 
clearly, and so on, to the third, until one finds himself go- 
ing on and on, through numberless worlds or wandering 
like an exile on the shores of time in boundless space. 

It is impossible to tell what my life might have been 
had my instructor lived. He was taken away young. 
The last time I saw him he was on a spirited horse going 
to play for a country dance in the.winter of 1863. He had 
his violin in a grain sack, tied around his neck, hanging 
down his back. 

A young man, a soldier in the army who had been in 
a hospital sick, had been given a furlough to come home 
to recruit his health. Friends had made a dancing party 
to cheer him up by celebrating his return-, and my in- 
structor was invited to furnish the music. He was then 
on his way, he said, to tangle the country girls up in a 
dizzy waltz and make a sick soldier feel like returning to 
the army to be shot at for his country. 



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I met him at a road crossing called "Miller's Corners/' 
where two roads crossed and are still crossing each other 
on Stillwell prairie in La Porte County, State of Indiana. 

In the center of these roads stood a post covered with 
guide boards pointing the way to different points. One 
board pointed west, and said, so many miles to "Door 
Village and Valparaiso"; another pointed east to 
"Lemon's Bridge and Plymouth"; one pointed north to 
"La Porte," and one south to "Kingsbury and Union 
Mills." 

I met him here on my way home from school. I was 
then principal of the "Bald Hill Seminary," and as much 
as I admired my old instructor and loved music I could 
not take one minute from this institution of learning, for 
I had to study night and day to keep ahead of the big 
classes, so they would not catch up and run over me in 
arithmetic, or some other common branch, or I might 
have gone with him. 

OUR PATHS PARTED HERE FOREVER. 

It turned out that the young man home from the army 
to recruit his health had been exposed to smallpox, and 
my instructor picked that up instead of any more new 
tunes, and the result was it forced him to lay down his 
violin and take up a harp. 

say this change made me sad and lonesome does 



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not express it. The charms of the violin vanished and 
I never felt prepared to accept a harp. 

The first thing I did was to get vaccinated and try to 
find consolation in a few such pieces as "Lily Dale," 
"The Last Rose of Summer" and "Home, Sweet Home." 
But it was without comfort; lightning had struck so 
near my door, all desire for music was taken away. I 
read in the Bible where it said, "Two women shall be 
grinding together ; the one shall be taken and the other 
left." "There shall be two men in one bed." "Two men 
shall be in the field ; the one shall be taken and the other 
left." How clearly all this scripture came to me, only 
in my case two fiddlers were sawing on fiddles. 

Being left without a live instructor, I got what is 
called an "Instruction Book," to see what could be got- 
ten out of that ; but it was, just as my lamented instructor 
had told me, "only in the way." 

All I could make out of it, or see in it, was a lot of 
characters and figures that looked like so many pothooks 
and little rings, painted black and hung out on a wire 
fence to dry. Still, I knew this could not be so, for they 
were so terribly dry when I looked at or went near them, 
they puckered me up all over. 

At the end of these lines were a lot of figures standing 
on top of each other, marked 2-4, 3-4, 4-4 and 6-4 time. 

These were altogether more and different kinds of 



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time than I knew about or had ever had any experience 
with, and it was impossible to get up the slightest inter- 
est in these odd, dry, strange characters and dull num- 
bers. What I wanted was a good time, such as I had 
been in the habit of having with a real live instructor. 
Not finding this in the book, the violin was given up ; I 
still have two, but for years they have remained as mute 
as the stone over my departed instructor's head. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

THE FOUNDATION OF MUSIC AND ALL 
OTHER THINGS. 

It was impossible to get an idea of the theory or foun- 
dation of music until after finding the key to the front 
door ; after this, not only the theory and foundation of 
music, but many other things were discovered. 

For years I pounded at the back door, not knowing 
the key to the front was in plain sight. The fact is, I 
did not know the key when I saw it, and really did not 
know where to look for the front door. The most I 
knew was something was wanted and wanted badly, and 
not knowing where or how to get it, I stood and pounded 
at the back door something like a half century, without 
the slightest response or recognition from the inside. 

No one even lifted the curtain at the back window to 
peep out to see who was there. About the same sights 
and conditions prevail around the back door of creation, 
and the same opportunities are afforded to see the inside 
of the great mansion and its beautiful appointments as are 
found anywhere, by looking at the outside of the back 
side wall of a structure to see its interior. The most 



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found and seen around back doors are drowsy bugs and 
spiders that entertain themselves crawling up and down 
without knowing anything about or appreciating that 
which is within. 

After pounding at the back door until white with age, 
I went around to the front door and tried something that 
was thought might be the key to the front door, and it 
flew open instantly; and here we are, in the most mag- 
nificent and wonderful of all mansions, planned and con- 
structed by the Supreme Architect of the Universe. Now 
that we are here, let us look at its many charms and 
wonders, and gather all possible in reference to its ap- 
pointments. Everything in existence, or that has been, 
is here, and bears the impress and likeness of the foun- 
dation walls. 

Everything turned out in creation bears the stamp of 
the Creator. 

The great Creator puts his name and brand on all He 
creates, the same as any first-class manufacturer. 

Everything turned out is not marked God's best, but 
everything turned out is marked God's work, the qual- 
ity of which is shown by its character. 

To make everything clear and the way easy, the trinity 
of creation must at all times be kept in view. 

The nature and object of the Creator must be judged 
from the use and effect of His creations. The effect of 



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the creation furnishes a classification for that which is 
created as well as a fac-simile of the Maker's signature. 
The Great Creator has a great many styles and ways 
of signing His name. 

We say everything in existence, or that has been, is 
stamped with the outlines and bears the likeness of the 
foundation walls of the universe. 

How do we know this? 

We find it stamped on the key to the front door and 
photographed on every part of the great mansion. 

How do we know we have the key to the front door 
of creation, of all knowledge and all development? 

We know it, because all creation, all knowledge and all 
development tell us so. 

The law by which knowledge is obtained is as fixed 
and well known as any other law of nature. 

The first step in acquiring knowledge is to decide upon 
a principle or plan on which to labor or direct investi- 
gation to determine certain results. Framing the plan, 
or fixing the line, on which to investigate is called 

A THEORY. 

Like everything else, a theory must be based upon 
natural law, have a promoter and an object for promotion. 

After deciding upon the plan or theory on which to 
direct investigation, which is experimenting before the 



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theory is proven to be true, the next step is to labor to 
prove the correctness of the theory by practical use and 
demonstration, 

WHICH IS CALLED PRACTICE. 

Theory and practice go together, and are one and in- 
separable. Theory is the plan upon which practice is 
conducted, and practice is the proof of the correctness 
of the theory. 

Without a theory shows in practice to be in harmony 
with natural principles and founded upon natural law, it 
is a false theory and cannot be followed ; for natural law 
is the only foundation on which any structure can stand 
or be maintained. 

So much for theory and practice, which is the founda- 
tion of knowledge. Knowledge commences in experi- 
ment and ends in acceptance or rejection, according to 
the decision of practice, under natural law. 

In studying natural law, or the nature of nature, the 
first step is to look for the theory or plan on which 
nature is founded ; find its foundation and support ; after 
this, its use and object. 

Nature is based upon and governed by natural law, the 
same as everything else, and its foundation is fixed and 
knowablc. To prove the correctness of this theory, let 
us look at the base on which nature stands; if this base 



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cannot be clearly presented, an imaginary one can, too 
strong and perfect for human power to dispute or tear 
down. 

Proof consists in showing the harmony or relation be- 
tween different parts and conditions; to do this, some 
condition or part must be positively known and agreed 
upon by all. 

In surveying, everything is run from what is called a 
"base line." It is called a "base line ,, because all surveys 
are based upon this one certain line established by the 
government. 

The location of this line is not so material as the fact 
that it is fixed and absolutely at rest for a base. If the 
base moves, everything resting upon it moves in propor- 
tion, if not destroyed entirely. 

If we say the northeast quarter of section numbered 
twenty-five, in township numbered one hundred forty- 
eight, north of range numbered fifty-one west of the fifth 
principal meridian, we mean a particular point or piece 
of land established by measurements from the "base line." 
The "base line" is the foundation of this and all other 
descriptions, great or small. It is easy to locate a start- 
ing point, but to determine the ownership and name of 
every resident on each description would be an endless 
task, although every description is based upon and hangs 
upon the one "base line." 



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NATURE AND NATURAL LAW 

rest upon two base lines of equal size and length, parallel 
to each other. It takes two to locate and support nature 
and natural law, they are so much larger and more com- 
plicated than everything else. 

The base lines upon which nature, the Universe, and 
all things in creation rest, are fixed and immovable be- 
yond the power of even the Supreme Architect to vary 
or depart from in the slightest degree. 

God Himself, and all worlds, are anchored to and sus- 
pended from these lines. 

From these base lines the Supreme Architect makes 
all measurements, draws all plans, bases all work and 
calculations, and everything brought forth bears their 
impress and likeness. 

Here is the commencement of all things, the end of all 
things, the foundation of all things. Work to be endur- 
ing and perfect must be in harmony with and on these 
lines; if not, it is out of order and cannot stand. The 
name of one of these lines is 

TIME, 
the other 
SPACE. 

Xeither of these have ever moved, expanded or con- 
tracted, and never will. Both are stationary, without be- 
ginning or end ; beyond comprehension, but ever present. 



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Neither are affected by changes or conditions. The 
clock may stop ticking, it is nothing to Time. If the sun 
should turn to darkness and the moon to blood ; if every 
planet, every world, every star, everything in creation, 
should drop into oblivion, it would be no more to Time 
and Space than the bursting of a soap bubble in the hands 
of a happy child in a summer sun. 

The changes that take place and the work that goes 
on in the presence of these Great Ancestors are without 
end ; but they have no more effect on these base lines 
of creation than a grasshopper would have in trying tc 
unbalance the world by bearing a little heavier on one 
of its crooked legs than the other. 

Every breath we draw and move we make are in the 
presence of these unknow T n and unknowable conditions; 
conditions which make a deep impression upon us while 
we never make any on them. 

We come, develop, change and go forth in their pres- 
ence; they neither smile nor shed a tear. 

Foundations and base lines would be useless without 
something to rest upon them. 

We now approach the greatest and grandest of all sub- 
jects, the fountain head of nature, the well spring of cre- 
ation, the soul and light of the Universe. ' 

Let us linger here long enough to draw one breath 
and behold for one moment the sublimity presented from 



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this lofty summit. Then, with new and inspired hope, let 
us toil on to fill the place assigned to us as the conscious 
animate part of nature. Let us rejoice that we are able 
to survey creation from the highest of pinnacles, and as 
we do so, that we are grasping the key to the front door. 

We ask again, how do we know this is the key? 

We know it because all creation, all knowledge and 
all development tell us so. In addition to this, the key 
we are grasping will not fit anywhere else, so it must be 
the key to the great front door of creation, knowledge 
and development. It is the only key that unlocks the 
door leading to the pinnacle towering above all others, 
the only place where we can get a clear and perfect view 
of our surroundings — so it must be the key. 

It is a principle of nature and natural law that the 
union of two different substances or conditions create a 
third, the nature of which is like the two united. 

It is also true that the term father implies offspring. 
It is also true that the term father implies mother, as well 
as offspring; it being absolutely impossible for spirit, man 
or beast to become a father or be an offspring without 
the reciprocating and corresponding mother. 

That the family circle is a trinity, the naming of any 
member of which implies others, and the principle that the 
union of two different bodies creates a third, is as straight 
and unswerving as an arrow in nature, whether aimed at 
the head of the Universe or a blind insect. 

Time is spoken of as 



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"FATHER TIME." 

Where, then, is the implied mother and offspring? 
There is but one thing opposite to and corresponding 
to time in nature, and that is 

SPACE. 

As like begets like, the union of Eternal Time and 
Eternal Space must be the ancestors of 

ETERNAL LIFE. 

Here we have the Universal Trinity and the birth of 
creation resting upon natural law. 

This is the Trinity of Trinities, the family circle of 
creation ; the great Royal Family, from which all others 
spring. 

The proof in support of this theory is, it is impossible 
to conceive of life being in advance of time and space 
or coeval with them. 

The further proof is, this theory stands the test of 
investigation, and not only harmonizes with all natural 
law, but proves itself to be the foundation of nature and 
natural law. 

Time is the only father who never dies, and Space is 
his consort and only equal. 

As it is natural for that which is produced to partake 



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of the nature of that which produces it, everything in 
existence bears the impress and is governed by the first, 
original and eternal ancestors ; it would be impossible to 
be otherwise. 

Time and Space being in advance of all things, greater 
than all things and the parents of all things, naturally 
predominate and impress their characteristics on all 
things, including life. Life is an infant of diminutive size 
compared to its ancestors, Time and Space. 

Life is a condition, evolved from and dependent upon 
other conditions. Time and space are not ; they are con- 
ditions that exist regardless of other conditions. They 
create conditions and are not subject to conditions or 
changes. 

They are the supreme parents before whom everything 
bows, even life eternal. 

If all things bearing the impress of life were heaped 
in a pile, it would not go as far towards filling time and 
space as a peck of dust scattered over the earth would 
go towards darkening the sun; everything is great or 
small by comparison. 

All actions and operations are based upon some known 
or supposed condition. The highest possible work in 
which man can engage is in promoting conditions or dis- 
covering conditions that will promote knowledge and 
happiness. Without knowing conditions, or some theory 



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on which to meet these ends, all labor and actions are in 
the dark and may be only movements of ignorance. 

The concentrated mind of man and the wisdom of all 
ages have not and cannot conceive of anything higher 
than the Universal Power that creates and governs all 
things. 

The nature and disposition of man is to inquire into 
conditions that govern him. If not interested or en- 
gaged in this he is not tending to the highest ends and 
aims of life. 

It makes no difference where the start is made or the 
direction taken in tracing the chain and nature of crea- 
tion. Investigation can be conducted just as well by 
going down as up. The chain of creation connects in all 
directions, otherwise it could not be a perfect chain ; the 
important end is to be able to follow it to a clear con- 
clusion. 

Start at the bottom and go clear up, or start <xt the 
top and come clear down, requires equally great knowl- 
edge or science ; development is complete in either direc- 
tion. 

Studying God, to find out man, or studying man, to 
find out God, is one and the same subject. To know 
the relation of one, is to know the other ; man is just as 
far from having himself located at his Maker, and he 
cannot correctly locate one without properly placing the 
other. 



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If man could answer in reference to where he came 
from, what he is and where going, he would know the 
design of the Great Designer; to determine this, some 
study man, and some study God. Some commence at 
the bottom and go up and some commence at the to] 
and come down. But whatever direction is taken th< 
chain is unending. 

When we say the object of life is the attainment of 
happiness, the door is open to every subject pertaining 
to life above and below; its beginning, its end, its sup- 
port, its development. And last of all, its object, which 
is the great and crowning part. 

If the object is happiness, there must be harmony 
Perfect harmony means the agreement of all parts ; if al 
parts were perfect but one, there would not be perfec 
harmony, consequently to be perfect, all parts must be 
understood and united. 

Whose life and happiness are we talking about? Man's 

Who is man? We say he is the conscious animate 
part of nature, bearing the impress and image of hi 
Maker. 

Who is his Maker? The author and founder of nature 
and natural law. 

Who is this author and founder? The Trinity of Uni- 
versal Creation. 

What trinity is this? Eternal Time, the Father of all 



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things; Eternal Space, the Mother of all things, and 
Eternal Life, the offspring of these great original an- 
cestors. 

What is there that has always existed besides time 
and space? Not anything. 

What is known about time and space? Only that 
which is revealed through the birth of life. 

From what time is time computed? From the birth 
| of life. 

Can life come into existence without parentage? No, 
, it can only come forth by being born. 

Where does life come from? It comes from a germ or 
seed planted and developed through time and space, the 
same as all other things. 

How many kinds of life are there? Two; transitory 
and eternal. 

What is transitory life? That which is transient or 
limited by time. 

What is eternal life? That which survives and rises 
above conditions and changes of time. 

How is eternal life attained? Through nature and 
natural law; through conception with eternity; by en- 
tering into and passing a sufficient amount of eternity 
to be born into life eternal. 

Can anything but eternity give birth to eternal life? 
No, Like begets like ; only eternity can beget eternity, 



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the same as light begets light and darkness darkness. 
( )nlv the trinity of the Godhead can impart light and life 
everlasting. Only the Eternal Father Time and the 
Eternal Mother Space can conceive and give birth to 
Eternal Life. 

What is death? One of the natural changes of time. 
It is the end of the transitory existence and conception 
with eternity. 

Where does conception with eternity take place? In 
the earth and with the earth, where all seed has to be 
deposited, to develop into life, either transitory or eter- 
nal. Here the original elements of nature come together 

What is the resurrection of life? It is life born intc 
eternity from the earth. There is but one entrance to 
eternity ; that is at the end of transitory life, through the 
door called death, leading into the earth. Death means 
conception in the womb of eternity. To gain eternal life, 
man must be conceived, formed and born through the 
eternal parents. 

How long must a man remain in eternity before being 
horn to eternal life? The natural theory would be, he 
would have to remain there the length of time it took 
Mother Space from her first conception with Father 
Time till the birth of her first born into eternal life. 

How long was this? 

Only the two eternal ancestors know or can answer; 



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it may be a secret between them which even the spirit 
of eternal life cannot tell. It may have been millions of 
centuries; it may have been billions; it may have been 
trillions; it makes no difference; Father Time and 
Mother Space had all eternity before them in which to 
make love ; all eternity before them in which to anticipate 
the coming glory of Eternal Life , of eternal fatherhood 
and eternal motherhood ; and there was all eternity to in- 
herit. 

What were a few million centuries more or less in this 
case? Nothing. 

What is it in life to come? Nothing. 

What great, grand and magnificent ancestors are 
these, and what an heir is Eternal Life. What mighty 
affection ; what unending love. 

Never did mother have such generous lap on which to 
hold an infant as Mother Space. Never did giant have 
such arms to toss a new born babe as Father Time. And 
what a beautiful child is the child Eternal Life. Its smile 
lights the eternal heavens ; its voice is eternal wisdom and 
harmony; its breath perpetual incense. It can breathe 
upon dust and make it conscious ; call it forth in its own 
image and likeness. Wonderful, wonderful child. 

It has planets for rattle boxes, and sun, moon and stars 
to bespangle its playhouse. 

When Mother Space pressed this infinite jewel to her 



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bosom, her tears of joy formed the oceans. When 
Father Time beheld this precious heir and heard eternal 
silence broken by its cry, a wellspring of affection flowed 
from his heart and formed the rivers and dews; rivers 
and dews which still sparkle and dance in the sunshine of 
eternal smiles; rivers and dews that will go on sparkling 
and smiling with gladness forever. 

What is the nature and character of this heir of eter- 
nity? It inherits the nature and estate of its eternal an- 
cestors ; it could not inherit anything else. 

Its nature is to occupy, enjoy and improve time an< 
space. 

The spirit of eternal life is perfectly balanced and could 
not be otherwise. . Being the offspring of two infinite 
perfections it inherits perfection; only perfection can in- 
herit eternal life. 

It is impossible for anything in creation to get away 
from the exact center, or be out of balance with eternal 
time. Everything and all things are balanced exactly be- 
tween two eternities ; the eternal past and the eternal 
future. It is the same way with eternal space, it is equally 
large in all directions, so that the point of existence is 
always in its exact center. 

The point of meeting and conception in time and space 
is in the exact center of both, and this point is beyond 
infinite power to remove or displace. So the fruit of the 



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union between these perfectly balanced ancestors is an 
equipoise and perfection in eternal life. 

Eternal Life must be perfect, because it comes from 
two absolutely perfect and infinite sources. Eternal Life 
is the birth of perfection from perfection; it has to be 
perfect in order to be eternal — this is why it is eternal — 
being eternal is proof of its perfection. 

The equipoise found in and evolved from the ances- 
tors of Eternal Life is the foundation of perfect wisdom, 
perfect love, perfect harmony, and perfect everything else 
spiritual and natural. Its presence being universal, it is 
reflected in all things and is the standard by which all 
things are measured from the Universal Trinity down. 

The equipoise found in and evolved from the ances- 
tors of Eternal Life, being found everywhere and in 
everything, is the foundation and cause of man's inborn 
consciousness of right and wrong ; of perfection and im- 
perfection, and of a supreme power over him. 

As man springs from an eternal source, it is the most 
natural of all things that he should turn towards and 
look into eternity, the source from which he came and 
must go. That he should have an inborn desire to study 
it, is nature and natural law. 

Eternal Life having Eternal Time and Space for an- 
cestors and all eternity for inheritance, and its natural 
nature being to develop its inherited nature and posses- 



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sion, is why the greatest strength, wisdom and perfection 
is in the direction of eternal development. It is eternity 
working to preserve and keep up eternal order and its 
own advancement. 

The ancestors of creation being the authors and found- 
ers of all things, including nature and Eternal Life, the 
greatest desire and highest aim of life is to be in harmony 
with and continue with time in space. Or it might be 
said, Time and Space being great creative powers, they 
are constantly striving to increase and spread Eternal 
Life that they may be loved and appreciated, and, like 
dutiful offspring, Life reciprocates by constantly strivin 
to enter into the joys of its ancestors. 

The increase and spread of life, both transitory and 
eternal, is the great force back of nature, all creations, all 
worlds, all nations, individuals and advancement. This 
increase and spread, with ail parts bearing and being 
dependent upon each other, forms the endless chain of 
existence. 

By following the trinity of nature, everything harmon- 
izes from the Creator down to the smallest atom in cre- 
ation. Through this trinity, light and grandeur are shed 
upon everything. Looking at the Godhead through this 
trinity, is not the invention of a weak and idle brain, but 
the unfolding of the fixed and unalterable union between 
Time and Space , the greatest and oldest of all unions and 
ancestors. 






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It is not a theory of presumption ; it is not one of ir- 
reverence; it is not speculation calculated to lead from 
old and beaten paths to dangerous grounds, or bring 
the Supreme Being below the Supremest of the Supreme 
to view creation in this light. 

By looking at the Godhead, through the trinity of 
nature and natural law, the most profound love and ad- 
miration is awakened for the Author of all things. For 
this view makes all things supremely grand and infinitely 
infinite. 

By looking at the Godhead, through the trinity of 
nature and natural law, eternal time and eternal space, 
which are beyond the power of infinity to grasp and fill, 
are not only found to be present and tangible attributes 
of a living God, but are reduced to the fineness of a 
single breath, and not only found to exist in everything 
from man to mollusks, but to be a part of everything. 
Everything finite and infinite blend through the trinity of 
nature. 

Life can be called intelligence evolved from time and 
space. If this is not an intelligent definition, it is for 
lack of intelligence to make it more so. 

Through the trinity of nature and natural law, a foun- 
dation is found upon which to build from earth to heaven. 
Through this trinity a foundation is found on which to 
build that is clear, while the work to be done and the 



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end to be readied are far beyond comprehension. The 
trinity of nature and natural law furnishes a road to fol- 
low and a way to follow it, while the grand end and fair 
object are far beyond the vision. 

We follow this road because its straightness and 
smoothness inspire confidence in its direction; it is a 
great and magnificent highway, run by a Surveyor who 
knew His business when He laid it out, and knows it still. 

By following this highway developments are brought 
out that otherwise could not be developed. By this light 
the Bible can be clearly read and interpreted. 






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CHAPTER VIII. 

HOW THE BIBLE IS READ AND INTERPRET- 
ED THROUGH THE TRINITY OF NATURAL 
LAW. 

"And God said, Lei us make man in Our image, after 
Our likeness." Gen. i, 26. 

It would seem from these plurals which God recog- 
nized in speaking, that more than one was present in con- 
sultation on the subject of making man, and that more 
than one was to be considered as to the form in which 
he should be made and whose image and likeness he 
should bear. 

WHO IS "US" AND WHO IS "OUR"? 

These plurals are highly important and divinely signifi- 
cant. This is not a proposition at a town meeting ; it is 
not a plan being discussed in a bar-room or at a card 
table as to the affairs and importance of man. 

The spirit of Eternal Life is here speaking. 

Who is it speaking to? 

It is certainly not addressing man, for man is not yet 
made and is not present. The Eternal Spirit is not talking 






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to the dust, for it has not yet been moulded and made a 
living soul. 

The Universal Trinity and natural law tell to whom 
the spirit is talking. After centuries and ages have 
passed, man is still here, thinking and deliberating on 
the subject of himself; who he is, where he came from, 
where he is going, why he happened to be man, and 
what God's image is. 

The language of the Bible shows clearly that before 
man was made there was a consultation and that there 
were thoughts and suggestions, for the spirit of Eternal 
Life says, "Let us make man in Our image, after Our 
likeness. " 

In using these plurals "Us" and "Our," it seems to be 
suggesting and asking for a privilege to do a certain 
work in a certain way. Who else was present equal to 
and greater in power than the spirit? 

This is answered by looking at the exact situation and, 
work under consideration. 

The Trinity of Trinities, the Great Royal Family of 
the Universe, and all creation, are in a cabinet meeting, 
deliberating and deciding upon a plan to perpetuate eter- 
nal grandeur, glory and happiness; and at this cabinet 
meeting, with all members present, it is officially decided 
to raise up the dust of the earth and endow it with con- 
sciousness, wisdom and eternal life, to give eternal thanks 



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and sing eternal praises as being a work worthy of an 
eternal God and the greatest of all things. 

At this royal cabinet meeting, where it was decided 
to turn the inanimate elements of nature into a living 
soul to sing eternal praises, the Spirit of all Spirits was 
the ruling Spirit then as now; but being only an infant 
compared with the other members of the cabinet circle, 
it did not forget to honor and reverence its great an- 
cestors, Father Time and Mother Space ; and it said, 
"Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness/' 

When it said "Us" and "Our," it spoke in the name 
of the Trinity, not as a single member of it. 

This cannot be an idle theory, for it would be just as 
easy for the Eternal Spirit to talk with Time and Space 
understandingly as it would be to mould dust into the 
form of man and make it a living, conscious soul by 
breathing into it the breath of life and then talking to 
that which had been made. 

"MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM." 

Here another point is brought out through the trinity 
of nature. Woman is just as much in God's image as 
man, and is here for the same reason God Himself is 
here; she is here because Father Time without Mother 
Space would be a failure and in eternal darkness. 

Without Mother Space, Father Time would not have 



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any place to show off his sun, moon and stars ; any place 
for the earth or any of the planets. 

Without Mother Space, Father Time would be a lone- 
some, gray-headed, childless old bachelor, sitting in 
darkness ; no one would know anything about him or 
care anything about him ; he would be just a common, 
plain, everyday old rock, sitting on top of a big rock pile 
in excruciating silence. 

But by having the great, good, grand Mother of crea- 
tion to hold up and show off to God's angels and men 
on the end of her little finger all his works, without mak- 
ing her little finger tired, Father Time makes a grand 
display, and is of immense importance ; but he owes all to 
Mother Space, and does all his showing and shining 
off through her ; take her away, and he would sink out 
of sight into insignificance. She is his equal under all 
circumstances and in every particular. He can never 
make half stars enough to cover her bosom. She now 
wears the sun for a small sized collar button and the 
moon for an ornament in her back hair. 

SHE IS A LOVELY AND BEAUTIFUL GOD- 

NESS, 

just the one and the only one fit to be the mother of 
Eternal Life. When we look at her it is not strange the 
breezes should waft to this Mother of Creation sweet 



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perfume. It is not strange the lakes should wear lilies 
on their spotless bosoms in her honor ; it is not strange 
the mountains should rise up and call her blesse'd ; it is 
not strange that verdure should carpet the valleys to 
meet her smiles ; that the earth should yield her gold 
and precious treasures, and that man should love and 
adore her. 

The female is neither a freak nor an accident ; she is one 
of the base lines of creation, one of the great original 
ancestors; she is one in her own right, not by way of 
inheritance or matrimony. 

At the cabinet meeting, when it was proposed to make 
man, the spirit of Eternal I ife did not forget to honor 
its mother. 

It said, "Let us make man in Ourtmage, after Our 
likeness. " This meant a full likeness of the whole family 
of creation. 

"Honor thy father and thy mother ; that thy days may 
be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth 
thee." 

The Eternal Spirit kept this command to the very let- 
ter when it said "Us" and "Our." It thought of Mother 
Space as well as Father Time. 

The light of mother's face was the source of its own 
life and light; it never could have spoken without it. 
Space is the female part of the Godhead ; without it there 



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could be no God or creation. Without woman man 
would not be in God's image, he would only be in a part 
of it ; infinite space and the way to fill it would be entirely 
left out. 

Without the female, it would not make any difference 
in whose image man was made, whether that of God or 
a wild orang-outang; nobody would ever see or hear 
anything about him but God, and he could not keep or 
have him around long; he would soon die off and be 
out of the way without the female to perpetuate and keep 
him alive and growing. 

When the Eternal Spirit said, "Let us make man in 
Our image, after Our likeness," it meant a complete 
and perfect image, not a side view of one barren feature. 
To be in God's image, man must be made to grow and 
fill time and space. To grow, he must be male and fe- 
male so he can grow, for neither can grow alone. Eter- 
nal Time, Eternal Space and the Spirit of Eternal Life 
must be represented to make the full and perfect like- 
ness. 

The female represents Eternal Space in the Grand 
Trinity, the male represents Eternal Time and the spirit 
of man represents the fruit of this eternal union. 

( rod gave in part his image to all things, — beasts, birds, 
fishes, insects and plants are created male and female, — 
but man alone he honored with the full likeness ; to him 
he gave the spirit and Eternal Life. 






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The male alone is only a part of man, the female alone 
is only a part of man, the two united possessing the spirit 
of God is man; any one of these parts lacking breaks 
the likeness. 

Truly nature is the key to the front door of creation, 
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CHAPTER IX. 

A VIEW FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE CEL- 
LAR LOOKING DOWN. 

In looking over a mansion of any kind, it is very pleas- 
ant to get up in the cupola and look at the great variety 
of things around it. And as it is impossible to look any- 
where without looking into space, we are constantly gaz- 
ing at wonderful things above us. We see clouds come 
and go; see them turn into forms that resemble birds, 
animals and human beings, then fade from view. 

I have lain on my back for hours in a hay field up in 
the cupola of thought and looked at floating clouds ; I 
have traced in them forms of all kinds; I could see in 
these fleecy travelers swimming in the air, bears, lions, 
elephants, monkeys ; angels with wings and without ; men 
on horseback, in chariots, behind flying steeds and on 
foot wearing armor. I could see ships sailing on great 
oceans with high masts and sails ; mammoth buildings 
with tall steeples, and all kinds of birds. As I watched 
these cloud forms come and go I wondered if they were 
not all beings that had lived or been on earth some time, 
and if I would not walk around up in the sky like them 






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in time to come , and from up there look down and see 
people working, while I was clear up out of the way 
having a good time. Where, if called or wanted to work, 
I could disappear in the face of sunbeams, like these un- 
hampered clouds and smile a cheerful good-bye; go 
where I could give thanks that I was no longer a grangei 
boy on earth going around barefooted among bumble- 
bees and rattlesnakes, raking up hay for cows to chew 
on with only a half a set of front teeth. 

I was usually very much exhausted after one of these 
thoughtful dreams ,and to recover would go to sleep on 
a haycock, where my father would find me and wake me 
up with a pitchfork. 

My part in haying was to take a hand rake and follow 
after the wagon when being loaded and rake up all that 
a careless pitcher failed to gather with his fork and all 
that a careless loader let fall back on to the ground from 
the wagon ; and it always seemed to me when raking that 
the pitcher and loader were both unreasonably slovenly, 
just because they had me to impose on. 

When the wagon went to the barn to be unloaded, I 
was left behind to rake the ground over and over, as it 
was, feared some stray spear of marsh grass might be in 
hiding that had escaped my searching rake in its first 
rounds. It was between the periods of unloading and the 
return of the wagon, when left behind to search for lost 



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spears of marsh grass on my father's marsh meadow, that 
I would be taken with wakeful dreams in broad daylight. 

There is no end to the variety of thoughts that fill the 
brain in a full-sized marsh meadow dream. When clouds 
appeared in human form, I wondered if they were not 
departed spirits trying to greet me. When the sun pierced 
them as they moved along, it looked like a door open- 
ing where all was bright and beautiful beyond, and I 
imagined I could see hands beckoning me to leave my 
hard, dry raking and come and join them where all was 
play and no work. Then I wondered what they all did 
up there, and how they disposed of all the time ; if they 
ever slept, or if any one scolded them for making a noise 
or being out late nights; if they could see people on earth 
and knew what we were doing here. Then I wondered 
how one feels when dying, and what the first thing will 
be that will be seen and recognized in the great beyond. 

Thoughts like these rolled through my mind without 
end. It is impossible to tell or account for all that fills 
the brain in an outdoor seance with nature. 

If possible, we would never do anything but stay up 
in the cupola on the great mansion of thought, with 
pleasant company, and look through space into the heav- 
ens. We would live here and bathe in beautiful sunsets, 
and dress by the bright light of morning; we would live 
here, and admire the lofty mountains of reflection and 



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the sparkling waters of silvery imagination ; the rich val- 
leys and* beautiful landscapes of meditation; we would 
live here on the odors of flowers, and listen to the music 
of sweet singing birds ; but it is not possible, we must 
get down on the earth and go to work; the wagon is 
returning for another load of marsh grass, and the raker 
must be up raking — that is why he is supposed to be 
here. 

It spoils the appetite for common labor entirely and 
makes an aspiring youth decidedly indifferent towards 
marsh grass to lie on his back and look into space and 
dream with open eyes. 

When he gets up he feels as though he had walked a 
long distance to see a menagerie and could not get in; 
as though he did not have money enough to buy a ticket 
and was caught trying to crawl under the tent. The 
song of the cricket, the buzz of the idle fly, the bite of the 
bloodthirsty mosquito and the notes of the crow are all 
more commonplace and monotonous than ever after a 
dream without sleep. 

As the public and I never met in the hayfield before, 
and may never meet here again, it may not be out of 
place to say something of this particular spot ; so every 
one is cordially invited to linger here a short time and 
look at matters of interest on this marsh meadow and 
take in a few of the exciting features of putting up marsh 
grass. 



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The wagon is now here being loaded and I am raking 
and thinking, and thinking and raking — not dreaming. 

To the east is a field called the 'Ten Acre Lot" ; in this 
lot there are three trees. One is a large "shag bark" 
hickory; it is called "shag bark" because it has long 
shaggy bark on it like a wet dog. Its bark peels up and 
off in large shaggy strips when pulled upon. The other 
two trees are "pig nut" hickories. They are called this 
because the nuts on them are so bitter only pigs will eat 
them — they are not fit for other folks. 

To the southwest is a field of corn, unusually tall and 
extra green. In one of the "pig nut" trees, that stands 
near the edge of the marsh meadow, sits a large, white- 
breasted hawk looking at me rake ; it seems to be in- 
specting my work. After a long and careful inspection 
it shakes its feathers and sails away as gracefully as a 
cloud, and as it rises with an air of independence and 
freedom, it seems to say, "You don't amount to any- 
thing; see me; I can fly, you must stay here and work." 
The insinuating manner of this bird is very depressing. 
It is felt as keenly as any insult, and the rake seems to 
draw harder than ever through the grass. The hawk is 
right; I see myself without wings or feathers, and as I 
stand surveying my condition, the holes in my pant- 
aloons seem to grow under my gaze. But I do not stand 
long till reminded that the searching rake must be kept 
moving. 



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There is something about new mown hay different 
from anything else ; it not only starts a copious flow of 
perspiration to get it, but by smelling sweet, it awakens 
tender thoughts and passions and arouses serious 
thoughts. 

Playing is different from any other harvest ; cutting 
ripe grain, husking ripe corn, harvesting ripe potatoes, 
picking ripe huckleberries, never impresses one in any 
such a way as cutting green grass. 

There* is something about grass tenderly tender; some 
way it seems to resemble and be akin to childhood. All 
other harvests are left to ripen and live their days out 
before being gathered, but to make hay, grass is cut 
down while green and still growing ; it is cut down when 
standing up straight and fresh in the morning of life ; it 
is wilted by noon, and in a few short hours is laid in the 
mow for mules and other beasts to chew on; it is cut 
in its bloom, and like childhood fades and goes. 

There is but one childhood ; that is the fresh and 
blooming period of life ; the tender and vivid part ; the 
green grass period preceding manhood; the part that 
never forgets and is never forgotten. 

Every child remembers its first serious thought, its 
first real grief. 

Being small, not very thick or long, grief goes through 
a child easier and quicker, and makes a deeper impres- 



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sion on its young nature than on an old, tough, thick- 
skinned, full grown sinner. 

Just why this marsh meadow made such a deep im- 
pression on my youthful nature is hard to say. Some- 
times I think the smell of the marsh had something to 
do with it ; that comes to me now. There were rank 
weeds around its edge and wild ducks and wild musk- 
rats had their nests out in the middle of it. It was really 
a marsh full of strange things and dangers, as well as 
hard work and exciting scenes ; perhaps this is the rea- 
son it impressed me so and impresses me still. Whatever 
the cause may be, this particular spot holds its full share 
cf my early life and recollections. 

In raking here a bumble bees' nest would be stirred 
up every few feet ; perhaps these bumbles had something 
to do with impressing me ; I am quite sure at times they 
did, for they often made impressions that took a week to 
cure. 

The bees here seemed to be particularly nervous and 
easily excited when raking around them. When they 
became unreasonably angry at my presence and rake, 1 
let them have the field all to themselves; I never stood 
to dispute or contest rights and never returned without 
a special invitation or strict orders to do so. 

My father was neither a rich man nor a fool ; he wa 
purely a self-made man ; this is the most he ever did 



IS 



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make. After getting his experience and education to- 
gether, he did not have time to get rich. 

He brought me up principally on corn bread and self- 
made philosophy ; the corn he raised which he sent me to 
mill with after it was shelled, and the philosophy he in- 
vented and brought out as needed for home consumption 
and family use. 

Being a philosopher he had perfect confidence in him- 
self to do this. He succeeded far enough to live on a 
farm and bring up a family ; but the family had to work 
to make his philosophy work. 

My mother was his second wife. This does not mean 
that he had two wives at the same time. He married my 
mother just as soon as he made up his mind to take a 
second wife, and as soon as she made up her mind to 
take him. 

He was a better judge of women than how to make 
money. Such cases are very common. When a woman 
strikes a case of this kind she usually displays some 
philosophy herself and declares she married for love, and 
not money. This is where her head is as level as a base 
ball park ; and by sticking to it, she makes her friends 
happy, if she is not herself. 

Being a philosopher, my father concluded to let the 
second crop of children, of which my mother was mother, 
grow up on such educational food as he could invent and 



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furnish at home, and as they could see to take in at night 
by the aid of a tallow candle. 

These educational advantages were anything but pleas- 
ing to my mother ; she had been an old-fashioned country 
school teacher in Herkimer County, New York, and 
thought she saw in me not only signs of dullness and 
stupidity, but well defined symptoms of indifference under 
a straight diet of home-made philosophy. My future 
looked to her dark and alarming, and she wanted me 
sent to some school, or to have some kind of philosophy 
introduced that would wake me up. 

There is but one general remedy for waking up boys 
ai home, and every boy knows what that is without being 
told ; the most of them only take about so much of it, 
then leave the remedy and the place where administered, 
behind. # 

There are a great many times when people would like 
to talk and express opinions if they could only afford it ; 
but, not being a millionaire, father was very cautious 
about indulging in the luxury of too many opinions, or 
rebelling against circumstances, as he feared he might 
not have enough to live on to carry on a rebellion, and 
that he might have to capitulate for want of food. 

He would have been more than pleased to have pleased 
my mother on the subject of education, but his circum- 
stances were so much larger than his means to control 



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them, he passed her the corn bread and said, "Apples 
that get ripe in August never keep over winter." 

This seemed to arouse rather than please her. 

"Do you think a boy seventeen years old who can 
scarcely read and write is an August apple?" she asked. 
She was quite sure she had some ideas on the subject of 
early fruit, and what time frost usually came in Indiana. 
She was certain August had passed in my case, and that 
October was approaching. 

Father passed her the corn bread again, and with it 
helped her to an extra large lump of home-made philoso- 
phy. He was a great observer of nature and a firm be- 
liever in natural law r . 

He said, "Fill two casks with water good and full and 
head them up good and tight, then have a blacksmith 
put iron hoops around both good and wide; place one 
over the fire where it can heat hot enough, and the other 
out in the cold where it can freeze solid enough, and the 
heat will burst one and the frost the other ; no power on 
earth can prevent this result, under the force and opera- 
tion of natural law. Nature can neither be penned up, 
locked up, bound up or headed up when it asserts itself ; 
when it comes to nature, all the blacksmiths and school 
teachers must stand aside. ,, 

He said it was the same way with education ; if there 
was anything in a boy's head it would find its way out ; 



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if not, it would be useless to buy hooks to fish in a pond 
where there were no fish. That she could not put hoops 
around my head to keep the ideas from coming out if 
nature had planted them there; neither could she sow 
seed enough to raise one if there was not soil in which 
seed could grow; and that as far as he was concerned 
he did not propose to lay awake nights and worry about 
my future ; that I would have to rely on what nature had 
done, or might do, in connection with my own efforts. 

He said he believed some one had discovered in educa- 
tional matters that, "Where there is a will there is a 
way." 

She thanked him very kindly for his self-satisfying and 
never failing supply of philosophy when there was noth- 
ing else on hand, and asked him to pass the plain bread 
without any philosophy with it. 

When alone I asked mother how father's views on 
education agreed with hers, and she said they made her 
feel very gloomy. Not on account of not being able to 
send me away to school, but she was afraid, under the 
operation of natural law, if it should turn out that my 
head happened to have any ideas in it, as soon as these 
long looked for and much desired things came in contact 
with natural forces, extreme heat or extreme cold, that 
the operation might be the same as on the iron-bound 
casks — burst my head wade open — and she might find 
me dead in bed some morning from this cause. 



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She hoped natural forces, would not get to forcing my 
brain in the night, when every one in the house was 
asleep, so a vent could not be put in in time to save me. 

The only way I could console her was by calling her 
attention to the difference between fruit and nuts ; that 
some nuts had to be frozen before they would grow ; that 
it she would put me down for a "tuff nut," instead of an 
August apple, she would have me located about right. 

Father was a very courageous man, where the chances 
were anywhere near even. His disposition was all sun- 
shine, unless the fog was so thick the sun could not 
shine through it. 

The weather in Indiana, a half mile south of Miller's 
cross roads, as I remember it, was good, fair, average 
weather, excepting in "dog days" ; then all the dogs and 
every one else had to look for a place to keep from be- 
coming grease spots. 

It was during one of these depressing dog day periods 
that we were on the marsh meadow, making marsh hay 
from marsh grass. This particular individual day now 
under consideration was such a hot one, it was necessary 
to dress entirely for comfort and not style. 

My father was the last man on earth to ape foreign 
style or foreigners in any way. But on this particular 
dog day, he observed the importance of harmonizing time 
and space in arranging his farm toilet. He did this by 



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putting his suspenders on first and his shirt a quarter of 
a minute later. The object of this style was to let the air 
circulate under his shirt instead of outside of it — that is 
if any air happened to start up and take a notion to 
circulate a little ways. This observance of time and 
space in his dress removed all obstructions in his panta- 
loon legs and left them to draw like two chimneys, there- 
by carrying the breezes from the ground clear up to his 
hat band. On the theory of natural law, he figured that 
as the air grew warm under his shirt from the heat of his 
body, it would naturally rise, and the cool air would rush 
up his trousers from below to take the place of it, and in 
this way he would have a delightful breeze passing over 
him all the time. 

This was a custom he had never indulged in before, 
and said he would not now only that it was an extraor- 
dinary occasion. He did not believe in luxury save 
when there was necessity for it; in this instance the 
weather had demanded the style before he adopted it. 
He did not believe in forcing himself on to anybody or 
anything without an invitation — not even the weather, 
lie was a firm believer in time and space, and a great 
lover of harmony. 

After enjoying the luxury of this time and space style 
in his dress for a while, he said he was not sure the 
Chinaman was such a fool and heathen after all; that he 



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undoubtedly had profound ideas on the subject of time 
and space, for he could see by putting his suspenders on 
just ahead of his shirt it was wonderfully comfortable and 
changed the arrangement of everything. That style, 
general appearance, circulation of air, in fact, the entire 
custom of a country was revolutionized by this slight 
observance. 

There was one thing, however, he said, he could not 
account for or see through, and that was, when the 
weather changed and turned cold, why the Chinaman 
did not change the time and space in his dress to corres- 
pond with the elements around him, and close up the 
cold air draft in his pantaloon legs by putting his sus- 
penders on last. 

The load was about ready to leave the marsh meadow, 
and I was just beginning to feel myself coming down 
with a fresh open air dream of unusual strength. A 
dream had started in on me like this: "I wonder where 
we will all be next year at this time — wonder if I will be 
here with this old rake in my hand raking hay?" 

Here my dream was cut short by seeing father jump 
and make a quick motion ; it was a bee ; not a political 
bee, in his head, but a large yellow untamed bumble bee 
with a ferociously striped tail on the back of his neck. 

As before stated, he was a courageous man where the 
chances were anywhere near even. His natural disposi- 



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tion was to keep cool and not get excited over trifles; 
it was a hot day, and he took this for an occasion to 
practice his philosophy and display true courage for the 
benefit of his boys then working to get an education and 
marsh hay for the winter. 

He would have come out all right if there had only been 
one bee or a reasonable number, but an unusual and un- 
reasonable number were against him ; so he did not hesi- 
tate in such an emergency to use his hat violently and 
vehemently; he struck right and left, up and down, 
around and ove~ 

He was standing his ground nobly, and to show his 
coolness in battle like an Indian brave smoking his pipe 
wh*n being executed, he smiled and pleasantly re- 
marked, "St. James says, 'He that is merry let him sing 
psalms* "; and with this, he commenced humming a full 
grown Camp Meeting Psalm. 

HE WAS BETTER AT SINGING THAN PRAY- 
ING. 

More bumbles now enlisted till the war was over and 
commenced humming a loud tune, too. He stood them 
off nobly, and his hum could be heard above them all, 
till he happened to step on a fresh nest. Seeing him 
dressed like a Chinaman, the fresh recruits surrounded 
him like a cloud and seemed to attack him with double 



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fury. He always declared afterwards that they saw the 
opportunity in the arrangement of his clothes and took 
advantage of it. After this he had a high regard for the 
intelligence of the bee as well as its industry. 

Not being accustomed to fight in a uniform put on 
expressly to keep cool and to illustrate time and space 
to his boys, a bee got under his shirt. Without think- 
ing, he stopped to get it out ; each busy bee now improved 
each shining moment, with true determination to keep 
busy, and they assaulted his breastworks with a force 
that carried them by storm. It was the first time he was 
ever known to run. Notwithstanding they made it so 
hot he had to drop his psalm and sing another tune, 
he kept his head like a true general and philosopher. 

All his philosophy was based upon mathematics as 
well as natural law. He was a natural born mathe- 
matician and retreated from this engagement under exact 
mathematical calculation. 

He figured that one dozen bees, inside of his outside 
space, could not be as hot as six dozen large healthy ones 
in the same place. That if he stopped and exposed him- 
self on the field of battle in the presence of the attacking 
enemy, to get the one dozen out, the prospects then 
before him were sufficient to warrant the belief that 
seventy-five dozen more would get in ; this would put him 
against seventy-six dozen net. By subtracting one dozen 



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from seventy-six dozen, providing he was successful in 
getting the one dozen out, seventy-five dozen would still 
remain. 

With this array of figures in favor of retreat, he held his 
shirt down with both hands to keep the space under it 
from growing any larger, and made a bee line due south- 
west, for the tall corn , making time and covering space 
with his legs of which no live man could feel ashamed ; 
and he did it without stopping himself till far enough 
into the corn to be safe, until there was space enough 
between himself and the live bees to be out of danger. 
Under the circumstances, he regarded this as common 
sense, not cowardice. 

When found, he was examining his condition and tak- 
ing an inventory of what he had left. 
The inventory showed as follows: 
One pair of farm boots. 
One pair of pantaloons. 
One leather suspender. 

About one-half of one farm shirt, which he was 
holding quite high with his left hand and examining 
very carefully with his right hand and oth eyes to see if it 
was free from bees' nests. 

His face looked as though he had had a severe case 
of measles, and his body was as spotted as that of a 
circus pony kept for a clown to ride in street parades. 



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It was very delicate and trying to meet a sire under 
circumstances like this ; it would be dangerous to laugh 
and do no good to swear about the bees. They seemed 
deaf to profanity. As father never instructed his family 
in anything but home made philosophy and natural law, 
that is all we had to comfort him with on this occasion ; 
and with this, his own favorite doctrine and remedy for 
all things, great care had to be used in administering it 
not to make him worse. 

I told him it was very painful to know a lot of worth- 
less bees had made him change his tune and had ruined 
his time and space dress; but under the circumstances, 
his conduct was noble and justifiable. That not one 
man in ten thousand would have stood as long as he 
did, and if the family name was ever heard of or pickled 
down in history it would be through him. 

Then I turned on a small stream of plain natural law 
to cool him off and let him know I was trying to improve 
under his teaching and to make the most of my educa- 
tional advantages. I told him I had learned a lesson, 
that might be quite painful and a trifle humiliating to him, 
but would be of everlasting benefit to me. That from 
practical demonstration I could see that the fruit of the 
union between a man and a large number of bumble bees, 
or even one small half grown young bee, was a trinity 
that at all times and under all circumstances I should 



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never fool with, but would keep as far from as possible. 
That never before did I see so clearly the law of com- 
pensation, that one man's loss is another's gain. That 
he could trust me to appreciate and profit by what had 
just taken place, if not with his pocket book ; and What 
I had learned about time and space was invaluable. 

SOME PEOPLE ARE ASHAMED OF THEIR 
BIRTH PLACE. 

They try to cover up their early life and surroundings 
and never refer to them with pride or pleasure. They 
hiive to come from some particular place, be in some 
particular place, and have some particular thing to con- 
sider themselves respectable or be even half way con- 
tented. This is weakness, a positive deficiency in char- 
acter. 

Natural law, properly understood, takes away all false 
pride in reference to life. 

Studied and followed it makes true men and phi- 
losophers out of common people; makes noble women, 
and promotes happiness under the most trying circum- 
stances. 

One part of the world is just as great and important 
as another and the work of creation is just as wonderful 
and instructive in a gnat's heel, or the business end of 



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a large wild bee, as in a king's head or a king's pos- 
sessions. 

Where one falls in love with nature as a grand whole, 
instead of looking at it through some small object 
or unpleasant light, life is interesting and beautiful under 
all circumstances ; looked at through the trinity of nature, 
bee stings turn to smiles and tears to sunshine ; and that 
which once seemed commonplace and hard, returns as 
| interesting experience or fond remembrance. 

It would be pleasant to linger here and review the 
happy hours of "dog days" on the marsh meadow longer. 
It would be pleasant to sit up in the cupola of thought, 
and look into space, and contemplate the changes of time ; 
but we must come down and turn from these pleasant 
places and go to the cellar and take a view from the 
bottom of that looking downwards. Here is the most 
important place of all to look at and examine the great 
mansion. 

To find out what a housekeeper is, go down cellar; 
that tells the story. If shelves are covered with mold; 
if decayed vegetables are lying around and things gen- 
erally untidy, put it down as poor housekeeping as well 
as doctor's bills to pay. 

If everything is neat and clean; sweet butter, sweet 
cream, and good food behind screen doors away from flies 
and mice, there is a jewel at the head of the house; if the 



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cellar is in order the balance of the house is sure to be. 

To know how a house is built, gc down cellar and look 
at its foundation walls ; if it is without a cellar, then the 
structure must be on top of the ground and cannot be 
perfect in all its parts ; the test of all things is looking 
below the surface. 

The foundation walls of the mansion we are in, viewed 
from the cellar, are perfect in thickness, length and depth, 
and exactly true in every way. Not a line or angle is 
imperfect. See of what imperishable material they are 
macje, material that will not only last a life time, but 
forever; worlds upon worlds can be piled upon these 
walls without making the slightest impression on them. 
The mansion of creation will never be a failure on account 
of its foundation walls giving away. 

Is not this view from the bottom of the cellar looking 
downward grand? You cannot see through it, can you? 

That is what you were brought here to see; to see 
that you cannot see through it. As time progresses, 
you may be able to see further into it, but never clear 
through it. 

A bottom to a cellar that could be seen through 
would not be a bottom at all, much less furnish a founda- 
tion to build upon ; never have a bottom to a cellar that 
you can see through, or that any one else can. 

In building, the foundation is the first thing to con- 



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sider; getting this part is the dryest and hardest, but 
most important. Day after day you work covered 
with dirt digging out dirt ; you toil carrying imperish- 
able material such as mortar, brick and stone ; you pay 
thousands of dollars to others to labor. For what? To 
build a structure on a foundation that will stand the test 
of time. Is this it? It is. In building, time and spack 
must be considered. To make it stand a long time, it 

i must be built with reference to this end. To cover 
these points alone, is why it is necessary to dig and carry 
imperishable material. 

It is strange how long it has taken the plainest and 
simplest ideas to get into my head. The simple laws of 
nature are just becoming clear. Anyone but a stupid 
man like myself would comprehend the plainest things 
without taking so long to see through them. Now that 
I have waited a long time and looked a long time, I can 
see the nature of time, and that the imperishable material 

! is for the purpose of enduring against it. No one could 
afford to build a new house every day. If they could, 
they would be constantly building and always live out of 
doors for want of a cover. 

Now, I am obliged to ask another question. I might 
as well confess and tell the truth first as last, building 
is a business I have just taken up. 
Why is that great big hole dug under the house? 



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That is a cellar. The hole alone is not a cellar, it is to 
make one when properly finished; then it is one of the 
most valuable and important features about the structure. 
The cellar is space made necessary to build a foundation 
to stand against time. It is the female part of the house. 

It is impossible to get a perfect foundation without 
the female is properly and fully represented. 

After getting a perfect foundation through the medium 
of space, it must be preserved through time to make the 
structure in all respects valuable. 

To get a perfect foundation, sufficient space must be 
taken and preserved, to place the structure on an 
equilibrium. This is not purchased at the hardware store 
or lumber yard ; it can only be obtained by recognizing 
and consulting the ancestors of creation. An equilib- 
rium in building is harmony between Time and Space 
under the house. This is a condition indispensable to 
a perfect structure. Without Time and Space are in 
love and harmony under your house it is terribly out of 
order, and should be torn down or repaired and these 
two all important parts made to agree. When Time and 
Space do not agree under and throughout the structure 
they are worse than a yard full of fighting cats. 

An equilibrium under a house means space that cannot 
be affected by the changes of time. It means that- it 
should be below frost in winter and heat in summer, so 



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things stored in it will have an even temperature through 
continuous time, not only part of the time but all of the 
time. 

An equilibrium under a house means if the walls are 
properly constructed they will be perfect in every par- 
ticular ; that they will not only support the weight of the 
building but preserve the temperature under it ; an equi- 
librium can only be gained through a perfect foundation. 
A perfect foundation can only be gained through walls 
that will stand the test of time ; walls that stand this test 
must bear a perfect relation to Mother Space, or she will 
give them away. She will let things contained within 
them freeze in winter and spoil in summer; she will let 
the house get out of plumb, lop sided and crooked. 

Father Time can not fool or disagree with Mother 
Space in the slightest particular and have her respect him 
or keep it secret ; she is as truthful as the most holy, and 
speaks plainly to angels as well as men. She treats all 
alike and requires all to be true to her. An equilibrium 
is the test of a perfect foundation, and it cannot exist 
without harmony between Time and Space. It can only 
exist when the two great ancestors sit hand in hand 
hugging and kissing each other; whereever this is the 
condition, you have a miniature likeness of the parents 
and regulators of all things temporal and eternal. 

Putting up a structure of any kind, simply represents 



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Time and Space ; and it does not make any difference 
whether it is a dog kennel or a marble hall. The walls, 
from the bottom of the cellar up, represent Time, and the 
rooms Space. What else could they represent? What 
kind of a room would it be without space? A flea could 
not live without it. The walls represent the length of 
time the building will stand and that the space can «be 
occupied. The length of time they will stand is one test 
of their value; the arrangement of the space within them 
is another test. 

Such instruments as the square, the level, the plumb 
bob and the compass, are all necessary to lay a perfect 
foundation. But we have not come to the cellar to take 
a view looking downwards to study these instruments. 
We have come here to study the principles and founda- 
tion on which these instruments are founded and rest. 

WHICH ARE TIME AND SPACE. 

These are the foundation of all foundations. It is 
necessary to know something about the ancestors of all 
things, before being able to understand or appreciate the 
offspring of anything. 

This chapter will be closed by asking a few simple 
questions. 

Where are cellars built? On the earth and in the earth, 
not up in the air or sky. This is very important to know, 



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cellars are built in the earth and on the earth. Par- 
ticular attention is called to this fact, for the reason 
there are a whole lot of chapters coming on the earth, 
and it is important to have the cellar in the right place 
and its use and location understood. 

Who builds cellars and then looks at the bottom of 
them? Man. 
Who is man? The conscious-animate part of nature. 



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CHAPTER X. 

THE CONSCIOUS-ANIMATE PART OF NA- 
TURE. 

As previously stated, in presenting nature and natural 
law it is immaterial where the start is made, what part is 
presented first, or direction taken. Whether you go 
down and come up, or go up and come down, everything 
is wrapped in the principle of the trinity. 

This is the compass, the guiding star, "the pillar of 
cloud by day" and "the pillar of fire by night" over the 
pathway of investigation. It points the way and fur- 
nishes the light by which to investigate; by following 
this, the key to the mansion is found. 

The navigator keeps a steadfast eye on the compass; 
over rolling billows on a boundless ocean, through dark- 
ness, out of sight of everything but stars above and deep 
waters below, he risks and guides all by a magnetic needle. 

Earthquakes may sink cities and floods may cover the 
lands, but the needle points to where they were or should 
be. By this, London City or the desert wild can be lo- 
cated. 

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a steadfast eye on this, every bark, great and small, can be 
safely guided to the desired harbor. 

All parts of nature point to the same glorious heights 
and join in harmony as a grand whole. All parts must 
be united to form the guide, one part alone is not 
sufficient. 

Any one who can play "Old Dan Tucker," and this 
only, if done understanding the principles of Time and 
Space, on which this and all other exercises in harmony 
are founded and written, they can apply the knowledge 
acquired practicing on "Old Dan," to any other piece of 
music, in so far as a knowledge of Time and Space has 
been acquired practicing on this. 

But, if they can only saw off, pound off, blow off, or 
scream off "Old Dan," as parrots, without knowing or 
having any idea of the principle or foundation of music, 
they are no more on the road to progress and intelligent 
development than a six-year-old male calf bellowing in 
the middle of a flower garden is advancing towards a 
position on the stage as an opera singer, and receiving 
bouquets before he starts. 

Why? Because they know nothing of the trinity of 
music, or any other trinity. If they did, they would 
know about this. 

Nature and natural law are the foundation of music. 
Music is harmony between Time and Space. My in- 



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structor died before finding this out and left me to wander 
alone over the face of the earth till gray before getting 
acquainted with it. 

I supposed music was some special gift or mystery 
wrapped up in some particular fingers or head; bui 
through the trinity of creation the foundation of music 
and all other things are found. For this knowledge I 
take off my hat and bow most profoundly before nature 
and natural law. 

The principle upon which music is founded when 
understood is more grand and enjoyable than music itself. 
The execution of music is only the development and illus- 
tration of the principle upon which it rests. 

There are many lovers of harmony who cannot play a 
musical instrument. Music is no greater or grander than 
any other harmony in Time and Space, only as it appeals 
more directly and pleasantly to the ear and heart. 

If so much can be gotten out of the violin on four 
small strings, that one small human being can hold under 
the chin and play with four fingers and a bow, what must 
be the overpowering harmony of Eternal Time and 
Eternal Space in the hands of God and all the angels? 

No wonder all dreams of heaven are filled with music. 

The compass is not used to find out how many gallons 
of water there are in the ocean, but to tell what course to 
take on it. This is the use of the Trinity. From this 



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we get our course and bearings on the ocean of life ; we 
use this because it is the natural compass and because 
all measurements must be made from a "base line." 

In music, the base line is "A natural" ; from this, the 
voice and all instruments are tuned,; no matter what the 
key or part, it is measured from "A natural" down, or 
up. 

Man is a natural being and cannot comprehend any- 
thing outside of natural conditions ; therefore, he must 
navigate in a natural channel where he naturally belongs ; 
outside of this, he becomes a blind and aimless wanderer. 
As soon as the scale of music is understood, and one 
piece can be picked out on its keyboard, based upon the 
base lines of creation, there is no end to combinations 
that can be made. 

Let us follow the trinity of nature and see where it 
leads and what it reveals in reference to man. The 
natural is more than man can understand, to say nothing 
of the supernatural. It is through the natural that the 
supernatural is foreshadowed and reflected. 

Man is called the conscious-animate part of nature, 
because he comes through nature, is a part of it, and 
cannot live away from it. Separate him from this and he 
is no longer a man or anything else that can be identi- 
fied. He is dependent upon the principles and resources 
of nature for existence; he is tied to it, beholden to 



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it, and belongs to it ; therefore he must be a part of it. 
Man separated from nature would be a failure, and the 
other parts of native without him would be without par- 
ticular use or object, or at least would not have a 
conscious part, which is the intelligent strata through 
which the other parts are made known. 

The intelligent strata, or man part of nature, puts all 
other parts together and furnishes them use. 

The conscious-animate is the part that supervises want ; 
it sees, feels, hears, smells, tastes and judges ; it cannot 
give up this nature and hold the place of conscious 
existence. It cannot exchange this nature for any other 
and remain the conscious-animate; its own nature com- 
pels it to appropriate the other parts on which to live 
and develop. 

Outside of consciousness, man is no more than the low- 
est animal or poorest clod of clay. He is the conscious- 
animate, because he is strictly this peculiar and individual 
part by reason of consciousness. By being conscious, 
he occupies the highest and most important place in 
creation ; he has a double nature, and is a link in the 
middle of the chain instead of being one dangling loose 
at the end of it. He is connected with creation at both 
ends, in the middle, and from above and below. He is 
the connecting link between the material and the im- 
material, the natural and spiritual, the transitory and 
eternal, the animate and inanimate. 



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The size and true nature of man is but little known or 
understood. All kinds of theories have been and are still 
being advanced in reference to him. He is considered 
by some a separate and distinct part in creation, on ac- 
count of his spiritual or soul qualities. 

He cannot be a separate part of creation, but must be a 
part connecting other parts. 

j HE IS THE HEAD OF THE TRINITY OF NA- 
TURE. 

In this relation he can be located and his position de- 
termined. He can be located by looking at the compass 
in the ship of life, by seeing where it points, where it 
always has and always will point. If there was any 
deviation or doubt about the compass, its value would 
be gone, and all navigation would come to an end. The 
value of the compass consists in its truthfulness, not 
fickle beauty. It stands the test of Time and Space ; this 
is its distinguishing feature. 

The work here undertaken is not to upset old theories, 
but to prove their truth and value. 

"WHAT I THINK AFTER THINKING " 

is presented on the theory that the compass is true, that 
the Bible is true, that the laws of nature are true, that 
science is true, that the laws of business are true, and 



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that all human growth and experience from the begin- 
ning down to the present moment is worth something. 

But if all this belief is wrong, then my theory is bottom 
side up ; if not, it is right side up and weighed down 
with truth to stand the test of Time and not blow over. 
It is supposed to be weighed down with material that 
gophers and other small animals can not scratch out and 
carry away. 

"What I Think After Thinking" is presented on the 
theory that the Bible is the greatest and most important 
book in existence; therefore this is laid on as a heavy 
weight first. 

The Bible tells where man came from, who made him, 
what he was made for, what he was made of, what he 
must do, how he must do it; what the result will be if he 
fails and the reward of success. 

The Bible is a book deeply interested in man and 
handed down expressly for his benefit. 

We say unqualifiedly it is the greatest of all books. 
We do not say perhaps, or possibly, we say positively, 
it is. We do not want any doubt or misunderstanding 
on this point ; we declare it to be directly and absolutely, 
The Word. 



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NOW HEAR WHAT GOD SAYS, 

r and if you do not like it, and cannot agree with it, it is 
fa matter between you and God, not an argument with 
anyone else. I am not the author of it, but not only feel 
'it a duty, but take great pleasure in calling attention to it 
tat this particular time; for this particular time seems to 
demand its attention more than ever. 
\ God talked business to man before He did religion. 
^It would seem from this that He intended him to find 
religion through business, not business through religion. 
.Religion is the result of correct conduct in business. 
iOne strictly correct in business possesses a great deal 
:of religious principle ; one of the strongest evidences of 
'religion is a correct business life. 

Now believing, and with the holy work in my hand 
and next to my heart, we go forward. 

GOD MADE MAN. 

How many did he make? One only. "Male and 
female created He them." 

The male and female together possessing the spirit of 
God is man. They must be united to make one, and 
when united, are only the seed from which man is now 
growing. 

If God only made one man, where did all these human 



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beings come from we see, hear and read about on the 
earth? And what about all those who have been here 
and returned back into the earth and are now sleeping 
in eternity? 

All put together are but the growth, extension, in- 
crease and spread of the one original man made by God. 

The first and only man, or man seed, made by God is 
still growing. When God made man a living soul in His 
own image, He meant His own image and a living soul ; 
not an imitation or humbug man, who would last but a 
short time and turn out a failure. 

The man first planted on earth is progressing according 
to the Creator's design ; he is not anywhere near finished 
or grown yet; he is still in a state of infancy, so far as 
growth and development are concerned ; he is still in a 
creative state and just becoming conscious of his nature 
and condition. From this on he will grow faster and 
become more conscious of his true relation to creation. 
He will continue to grow and develop till he covers suf- 
ficient Time and Space to be in the true image of his 
Maker; not until then will he be a complete man. 

It cannot be imagined for a moment that a miserable, 
flirty, soulless being is in God's image because he walks 
upright in human form. There is a vast difference 
between a being of this kind and man; there can be no 
comparison between the two. 



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The population of the world is estimated to be about 
one billion and seven hundred millions. 

How many human beings have been on .earth and re- 
turned back into it only the Creator knows. 

But many billions have passed from the branches above 
the ground down into the roots, below. So a large part 
of Adam to-day is spread over the eternal past, as far as 
his growth in that direction has gone, and the balance of 
him is spread pretty generally over the face of the earth, 
in white, black, red and yellow colors, influenced largely 
by climate and conditions. 

To get an idea of man's size, age and nature, he must 
be looked at as the head of a great trinity; as the in- 
telligent part of nature. 

Man was created in the beginning a seed, and is now 
like an unbroken vine that has spread and developed, with 
roots reaching down through ages past, and tendrils and 
branches reaching up to go on growing and spreading 
through all time to come. 

Man as the head of a trinity, as the intelligent part of 
a great whole, is sublime, grand and beautiful. As a 
single individual he is insignificant and inferior. 

A single individual is not man. A single individual is 
only a speck or grain of man substance, the same as a 
grain of sand is but a speck of the earth's great surface. 

How much Time and Space could a single individual 






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cover in eternity? Not enough to be worth starting a 
fire in the infernal regions to burn up. A single in- 
dividual would be so small in eternity no one would see 
or hear anything about it. To take notice of or try to 
purify it with fire would be like building a smudge on the 
Atlantic coast to drive mosquitoes out of Hong Kong. 

A single tree does not make a forest ; one drop of water 
does not make an ocean; one individual does not make 
society or form a nation; neither does one individual 
make man. 

Man is a great, grand and glorious element in creation, 
unbroken and continuous ; God's very best work, too im- 
portant to pass over lightly. He is all of us, and we are 
him ; so let us view him as far as possible in his full 
size and true sphere. Man is gotten up on a grand plan 
and made expressly to fill and enjoy Time and Space. 

Labor was instituted to educate him, not to make a 
slave of him. 

What use has God for labor, only to improve man and 
make him grow in the right direction? If God desired 
He could make as many images as He pleased in the 
shape of man and have them sit and stand around with- 
out work, like so many dummy forms used to display 
goods in show windows. 

Put what good would they be? Who would care to 
hug and kiss such things? Even flies could not find 
pleasure in roosting on them. 



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God is not a believer or dealer in machine-made angels. 
He wants live, intelligent males and females to become 
angels to praise Him ; those who will live through Time 
and occupy Space and know about Him through intel- 
ligent existence; He w r ants beings who can act from 
experience and knowledge. He does not tend and play 
with sawdust babies that talk and wink automatically. 
He is a dealer in and manufacturer of life, and wants live 

I beings to praise Him from living souls. 

God has but one work on earth — that work is man's 
development; man's development is His glory. Man's 

1 development is the foundation of angels. An angel is a 
man made perfect. 

The greatest and most Godly work of the Supreme 
Being is making 

THE INANIMATE CONSCIOUS. 

Nothing can be higher, greater or grander than this. 
Think of taking the dust of the earth and turning it into 
intelligence, and have it progress and progress, until it 
reaches the state and sphere of perfect life in eternity. 
What a theme ; what a work ! 

Here is the most entrancing scene and the most en- 
trancing condition recorded anywhere in life, history or 
imagination. 

Think of the Creator, alone in the immensity of spact, 



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holding a new world in His hand — everything is prepared 
in advance for man's coming ; but where is man? 

He touches the dust and breathes upon it and man 
comes forth a living soul in the image of his Maker. He 
says a few words to this conscious dust about the earth, 
what it is for and what to do with it, then leaves this man 
seed to grow and develop. 

God knew the size of the earth when He put the one 
conscious seed on it; He knew the size of the oceans; 
He knew how fast man would increase and multiply, and 
just how he was to do it; He knew Jie had everything 
to learn; He knew he was naked; He knew how cold, 
heat and hunger would affect him; He knew man was 
made to be affected by these things. He knew how 
despair, grief, love and anger would come to him; and 
with it all, He made him to walk between two eternities 
and keep step with the trinity of Time and the trinity of 
Nature. 

The dividing line between the eternal past and the 
eternal future is the present. The present is a period 
almost too small for measurement, and car. only be 
measured in the center of the body. 

When man breathes, he draws in the future ; when he 
lets his breath out, he lets out the past. The present 
only covers the turning point between taking a breath in 
and letting it out. 



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Life is between memory of the past and hope of the 
future; memory and hope are man's principle elements 
and possessions. They are views seen and anticipated 
on the border line between the eternities. 

Time bears fruit, the same as all other trinities. It has 
within itself the powers, of creation and destruction ; be- 
ing a sire, a developer and destroyer, all within itself, 
makes it the king of subjects. The highest work is to 
build to endure against it. To do this requires 
some conception of its nature if not its extent ; we take 
notice of and are deeply impressed by it, from being 
conscious of our relation to it. 

Being under its influence and control makes it a sub- 
ject not only interesting btrt important. Beiag great 
and full of wonderful things, it suggests great and 
wonderful thoughts, as well as those full of awe. Provid- 
ing against it is the aim of life; to do this requires the 
strength of perfection. The only way to meet Time and 
rise above its conditions is to live and grow under in- 
fluences that promote and develop the highest forms of 
life. Time itself furnishes a guide for this by proving 
the truth of all things. It teaches that the laws of nature 
are and must be certain in their operations; otherwise, 
science and knowledge would be without foundation. 

Relying upon the truth of this teaching, I stand forth 
and go forth to proclaim that the words, spoken by the 
Creator to man when He created the world, are the way. 



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"BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY, AND RE- 
PLENISH THE EARTH, XND SUBDUE IT." 

This is a command from God, not a suggestion from 
a real estate agent who has land to sell. This is not a 
new theory or doctrine, but the divine, the natural, and 
original compass pointing the way to development. 
When the earth is subdued, not before, will man's growth 
and work be completed; upon the fulfillment of this 
command hangs future happiness. 

Those who regard this as an old thread-bare platitude, 
instead of a divine truth lighting the way to knowledge 
and pointing out the foundation of science and religion, 
are only the ignorant and those living in heathendom. 

Subduing the earth is the first letter for man to learn 
in the great alphabet of existence. When God told him 
to do this, He knew it would take a long time and many 
hands to do it; therefore He said, "Be fruitful, and 
multiply. " He knew it could not be done in a short time 
by a single man seed ; and as He had all eternity at His 
disposal, He gave employment to last accordingly ; long 
enough to make the command clear to man, who is now 
just getting old enough to begin to be able to recognize 
the truth and comprehend the nature and importance of 
that which is before him. 

Subduing the earth in a rough, coarse way, simply to 



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exist, is not sufficient or all there is to it. If this was all, 
the subject would not be worth considering or life worth 
living. There are many sides to subduing the earth 
besides working and sweating to get bread. In doing it, 
man is brought into the highest and sublimest relations 
with creation. All the natural and original elements of 
nature are brought together, where they work upon each 
other for a common end and a common good. 

Man must replenish and subdue the earth as the fulfill- 
i ment of a divine command, as the way to development 
in the order of creation, not for the sole purpose of mak- 
ing money. 

If the first words spoken by God are not true, none are 
true. 

BUT THE FIRST ARE TRUE. 

"Replenish the earth and subdue it," was the com- 
mand given to Adam at the beginning and to Noah after 
the flood. If this was not the most important of all 
works, God would not have commanded and kept repeat- 
ing the command. It will be time enough to know why 
it is commanded after the work is done. It is not for 
man to question its wisdom, but to obey and await results. 

The past not only points to this as the way, but the 
present and future declare and demand it; it is in 



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harmony with the great trinity of creation and growth of 
man. 

What is a world without order? What is a universe 
without order? What is a nation without order? What 
is an individual without order? Without it, all is chaos 
and anarchy. 

What is order? 

It is obedience to Supreme law. What is law? Law 
is fixed and established principles and commands pre- 
scribed by a Supreme power. The foundation of all laws 
is the law of Nature. The author of natural law is the 
Supreme Being. The Supreme Being is the Supreme 
Trinity; the Supreme Trinity is Eternal Time, Eternal 
Space and Eternal Life. 

The wisdom and glory of the Supreme Being is in 
making the inanimate conscious, that it may enjoy Eternal 
Life through Eternal Time in Eternal Space. This is the 
thought and work of a great God, not of small man. 
This is the thought and plan of the Superior, not the in- 
ferior. 

Giving consciousness to one atom of dust made a con- 
scious seed to grow and spread over Time and Space, 
to become conscious of all things. Consciousness is a 
thing of growth, and has grown and spread since its 
creation and will continue to do so, because its parents 
are unending. The conscious world is constantly be- 



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coming more conscious of truth and light. This growth 

will continue until the conscious-animate part of nature, 

called man, will see itself as an unbroken chain connect- 

i ing the finite and infinite, as man now sees and knows 

« himself from childhood to old age. 

The creation of Adam w r as the birth of conscious life. 

The growth of man, his discoveries and science, his 

knowledge, his religion, his prayers and inventions, are 

but records and reports of conscious nature made to itself 

about itself at different times under different conditions 

I in differeent parts of Space. Through consciousness, im- 

* pressions impressed upon one are communicated and im- 

5 pressed upon all; so through this medium impressions 

grow and accumulate, and through Time become a com- 

. mon field. Through the conscious-animate, Time and its 

I conditions are being brought together and made known. 

So great and grand is the conscious-animate, the mind 

can dart back over centuries as quickly and easily as 

J over the hundredth part of a second. Through this, a 

twinkling star is seen as readily as the light in the room. 

This is also true of life. Life is but consciousness under 

different conditions at different periods in different parts 

of Space; all that is necessary to make it a complete and 

unbroken chain is power of communication. 

Through the conscious-animate we can now go back 
and stand with the Creator in the Garden of Eden. We 



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can see Adam driven from here alone to labor; we can 
watch his growth and struggles through ages; we can 
see him as he was, and is now, spread over the past and 
the present, and as he will be in the future. 

It is not strange that great changes should take place 
with man, that he should have great ideas, and look to fill 
a great place, for he is a great being. From this on, 
great changes and great growth will come more rapidly. 
Why? Because the conscious-animate, by reason of age 
and growth, sheds new and increased light. This light, 
being the creation of Time, sheds light upon Time. 
It thus becomes a law unto itself, within itself and for 
itself, made known through itself. 

By reason of this light we speak and act, see, reason 
and hear. 

Hear what? What we are told to do. What is this? 
"Replenish the earth and subdue it." 

Who tells us this? The Supreme Being. 

What is promised when this is done? Dominion over 
everything. 

Man comes from the earth, lives on it and returns back 
into it, and the earth will not be subdued, in the full mean- 
ing of the text, until he can come out of it after returning 
to it. Time is going to bring this. 



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CHAPTER XL . 
THE EARTH; WHERE LOCATED. 

The Earth is located in that part of the immensity of 
space where man was made, and is still found, struggling 
to perpetuate growth and existence. The earth is man's 
natural mother. 

It is the unthinking end of the Trinity of which man is 
1 the head. The earth does not think, but it keeps man 
very busy thinking how to keep up with it. 



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CHAPTER XII. 
THE EARTH AS A TEACHER OF RELIGION. 

What do we learn from the earth? Everything. 

What do we find in the earth? Everything from re- 
ligion to wild bees that make honey and those that do not. 

The earth is full of inspiration as well as precious ores 
and rich harvests. 

The faith of Abraham came from teachings of the earth. 
The wisdom of Solomon and the psalms of David were 
drawn from it. It is constantly presenting conditions 
that inspire faith and poetry, conditions of life and death. 
After being buried for months under ice and snow, vege- 
tation is resurrected by the sun of spring. It is not 
strange that when man saw, and still sees, delicate flowers 
rising up out of the cold earth he should think that he 
might rise up in the same way and live hereafter. 

The earth suggests this and keeps repeating it and pre- 
senting it in the most convincing manner. 

The teachings of the church rest upon conditions found 
in the earth. 



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WHEN DOES EASTER COME? 

In the spring. What time in the spring? Just about 
as Nature is resurrecting vegetation and raising up smil- 
ing flowers from the cold, dead earth ; when Nature is 
bringing life out of the grave ; this is when Easter comes. 

Who observes Easter? All christianized nations. 

What is a christianized nation? One believing in 
Christ. 

Who is Christ? The one who taught and exemplified 
the doctrine of the resurrection and life eternal by his 
life; a doctrine exactly in harmony with the earth and 
nature. The Son of Man is typical of the sun of light, for 
He sheds light on future life. 

Religious teachers have very wisely selected spring as 
the time to present the resurrection of man to man ; for 
corresponding conditions in nature at this time serve to 
give greater force to the doctrine. Nature comes forth 
at this time and furnishes living evidence in support of 
this belief; and people not religiously inclined are im- 
pressed by the voice and operations of nature if not by the 
preacher. 

The earth is the strongest and most eloquent of all 
preachers on the subject of the resurrection. If the earth 
should fail to present and keep up this doctrine, the voice 
of the preacher would soon become cold and barren, and 
faith would die for want of living evidence . 



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Easter would be entirely out of place in the fall of the 
year at Thanksgiving time, when the earth is freezing up 
and entering into a state of death ; because it would not be 
in harmony with nature. There would be no flowers 
coming forth at this time in evidence of life from the 
grave. Easter is when the earth is opening its eyes after 
a sleep in death, not when it is closing them to life ; it is a 
festival in memory and praise of life from the grave. 

When preachers and religious teachings are indorsed 
by nature, the effect is very much greater and stronger. 
Man can dispute religious teachers standing alone, but 
he cannot dispute or upset nature without upsetting him- 
self. 

It is not to be understood that I have become suddenly 
religious and given up the farm for a pulpit; the farm is 
a pulpit for everyone within itself. 

The relation of man to the earth, and the earth to man, 
can only be shown through the channel by which man 
comes and goes. 

Nature and the Bible are not dwelt upon to establish or 
contradict any particular religious belief, but to point out 
conditions and principles of interest to all and in which 
all are interested. 

There are many who do and many who do not believe 
the Bible, but when it agrees with nature and natural law 



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the religious and irreligious must bow alike, for nature 

is indisputable. 
The Bible says "Replenish the earth and subdue it." 
Nature indorses this command, so do all human needs. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 

THE EARTH AS A TEACHER OF EVERYDAY 

AFFAIRS. 

There is no apology offered for taking this text ; it is 
natural, holy truth. The truth is sometimes the coldest 
and most unwelcome of all things to hear; but it can- 
not, and will not, be put down. 

Believing and feeling the truth of the text, it is dwelt 
upon at length in the hope of making it clear, if possible. 

The earth has so many uninviting features in the sense 
of subduing it that many do not undertake it until forced 
by circumstances to do so ; and many who have under- 
taken it are not satisfied with the work or results. So 
when universal attention is invited to the oldest, and, to 
many, the hardest and dryest of all subjects, the writer 
appreciates it must be presented from high authority and 
under the strongest light. 

All enjoy the fruits of the earth but all do not enjoy 
performing the labor necessary to get them. 

The earth was made to subdue and man was made to 
subdue it. The fulfillment of this relation and condition 
is calculated to bring man and the earth both up to a high 
standard. 



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All important conditions of life have a sugar coating 
that covers up the reality and keeps serious features well 
hid until riveted so tightly they cannot be shaken off. 

"Be fruitful and multiply," is the first command. 

Multiplying was made easy, or the command, "Subdue 
the earth and replenish it," would be useless. 

The rose-colored tints of love, pleasure and happiness, 
are put ahead of the stern condition of subduing, or there 
would not be any incline to the toboggan slide of life, to 
get man down to hard labor. All would be on uninviting, 
monotonous dead level — without the sugar coating, the 
stern realities of life would be felt and seen so far in 
advance, anticipation would be blotted out. Blessed be 
the sugar coating that is spread like molasses on ginger 
bread all over life. 

The first command has been fulfilled far enough for 
man to begin to realize and see the importance and nature 
of the second. He is just learning, as it were, to walk in 
this respect. This command is without any sugar coat- 
ing and appeals directly to reason and intelligence. It 
has a divine relation to creation, because it is the 
Creator's plan for man's development, as well as man's 
support and the earth's development. Attention is not 
called to the earth here to induce more people to subdue 
more land, to raise more cheap products to sell below the 
cost of production, in order to furnish more business for 



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railroad and machine manufacturers. Attention is here 
called to the earth to show its true nature and importance, 
what its influence has been, is, and must continue to be. 

MAN MOVES BY FITS AND STARTS, 

and he cannot always tell why he has fits and starts, or 
why he has fits and don't start. He goes ahead for a while, 
with high hopes and energy, then comes to a standstill, 
with energy and hopes both gone. He stands till condi- 
tions change and help him out, or until he changes and 
helps himself out ; periods ot advancement that are perma- 
nent are the exception, not the rule. 

The growth and development of the human family will 
always be of interest and importance to the family at least, 
and it must be worked out under the command, "Be fruit- 
ful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue 
it"; this is the basis of all other conditions. It is not 
necessary to go back over past ages and nations to show 
'this ; all conditions at present are in evidence of it. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 

THE EARTH AS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR 
COUNTRY. 

Look at our country in reference to the earth. 

The people of the United States have survived wars, 

olitics, business depressions and religious intolerance; 

I but to-day they are in a condition somewhat mixed, and 

many cannot really tell whether they are going ahead, 

backing up or standing still. But we are going ahead, as 

will be seen by looking at the earth. 

Singular and grave conditions are said to exist, but no 
graver conditions exist now than have existed before; 
there are no graver difficulties to overcome than have 
been overcome, and the nation was never as strong as 
now. It is not necessary to worry or borrow trouble 
about the future as long as the ship is whole and we have 
a compass and know the way to sail. 

It is clear to be seen that important and great changes 
must come and are coming, but these changes will help 
the nation, not hurt it. 

When general conditions are looked squarely in the 
face, we admit that our legs are inclined to tremble and 
our hair to Stand on end ; but when properly understood 



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there is no cause for alarm ; they are only conditions pre- 
ceding new life and new birth. The period preceding 
birth is always one of depression and anxiety, one of sick- j 
ness and distress. Why? Because these conditions are 
full of gravity and uncertainty ; approaching changes are 
always matters of anxiety until over. It is well that 
seriousness marks these periods, it makes them remem- 
bered longer. By looking around, we find overproduc- 1 
tion, idleness, enormous wealth and poverty all before us. 

Those who have money lack confidence to invest it; 
those who have it not, lack credit to get it. The man 
who has work would like to take a rest and have his | 
wages raised, and the one without work can't get rest 
of anthing else without cash. A physician is needed and 
called for. Many are around, but they cannot agree ; 
this makes it worse than being without any. In a case 
like this, the only way is to fall back on nature, common 
sense, good nursing and the Bible. 

The study and application of nature and natural law is ] 
not confined to budding trees and green grass alone; it is 1 
a field deep and wide, and takes in the affairs of men and l! 
nations. 

Let us look at the earth and natural conditions, as con- 1 
nected with our country. 

More depends upon the United States, at present, for I 
the advancement of humanity than on all other nations 



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put together. The failure to perpetuate happiness and 

prosperity here would darken the skies of the world ; the 

downfall of the American people would mean as much as 

the return of the Pharaohs to power or the fall of the 

angels. 

The strength and safety of our government lies in the 

fact that it is founded upon natural conditions and natural 

law ; and it has kept up and grown great and strong on 

i 

jthis foundation, and will continue to grow greater and 

stronger as long as these conditions are recognized and 
,made to prevail. 

J What has made America what it is? You say patriots 
rand great men. Well, then, what made the patriots and 
great men? Advantages afforded here by the earth. 
Great men and patriots cannot be made without some- 
thing to make them; there must be some great condition 
or thing to fight for to produce great fighters. Patriots 
must have a foundation to stand upon and a reason for 
being patriots in order to become such; the earth here 
from the beginning held out and afforded these oppor- 
tunities and still affords them. The foundation of this 
nation is the earth and the soil we live on. The patriots 
and early settlers did not create the earth; they simply 
took advantage of the lay of the land and conditions here 
conducive to freedom as they found them in a state of 
nature, through which means they were largely assisted 



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to lay out the other fellows and make a government for 
themselves. 

The free and open condition of the earth here sug- 
gested the idea of freedom and furnished the opportunity 
to win it. This is why the patriots were patriots. 

There was something glorious and magnificent to fight 
for; there was something to develop every element of 
manhood in man and make life worth living. The best 
part of a continent was the reward in sight ; this was prize 
enough. Failure meant slavery and crowned dictation; 
success meant all worth possessing. This was stimulus 
and occasion enough to make patriots and fighters. 

The exact part which the earth and its conditions fur- 
nished in establishing this government, and must con- 
tinue to furnish, cannot be overestimated and should 
never be overlooked. / 

Being open and free, its open and free condition natur- 
ally suggested freedom to the colonies ; being open and 
free afforded the opportunity to gain freedom ; all condi- 
tions were ripe and ready to set freedom in motion and 
maintain it. 

There were no crowned heads here to remove, and 
never have been. It will be a long, cold day for the one 
who tries to wear a crown in this country where a "boss" 
can't survive two elections. 

The free, open condition of the earth that inspired the 



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patriots was protected by an ocean three thousand miles 
wide; and, thanks' to Heaven, there were no Atlantic 
cables or fast sailing steamships at that time; slow 
(coaches and no improvements were then blessings and 
our salvation. An advanced state of science would have 
'crushed out our liberties. We are indebted to conditions 
of nature as well as patriotism for the establishment of 
^this government ; without favorable natural conditions re- 
bellion would have been foolishness. 

As like begets like, freedom and liberty beget freedom 
and liberty. 

In 1776 the American colonies got the idea of freedom 
from breathing free air. Indians free from British taxa- 
tion and domination suggested independence ; every sur- 
rounding, from air, ocean, land, mountain and forest, rang 
with freedom and echoed it back every time they spoke. 
Every element of nature was filled and running over with 
it; it was so thick and extensive it became contagious, 
'and in time filled men, women and children with its spirit. 
The country was one vast, living expanse of it, and it 
could not be resisted. This nation is free because it was 
conceived and born from freedom on free soil ; it inherits 
it from birth and ancestry, which it will never change or 
forsake without conditions in nature change. 

The spirit of liberty, not only here but the world over, 
is growing. 



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CHAPTER XV. 
THE EARTH AND THE FOREIGNER. 

Still we admit when general conditions are looked 
squarely in the face our legs naturally tremble and our 
hair tries to stand on end ; but this is true of any great and 
important condition or reality. 

Life is a serious thing under all circumstances ; love is 
a serious thing, and matrimony more so. It is also seri- 
ous not to be in these conditions. It is impossible to 
dodge seriousness, turn as we may ; it stands waiting on 
the corner with smiles to allure or frowns to frighten, as 
occasion may require. 

When we look at some conditions in the United States 
it is natural to tremble. When we think how the door 
of immigration has stood wide open, and has been closed 
but very little; when we think that that which cost the 
patriot fathers their blood and years of fighting; that that 
which George Washington spent years of his life to get — 
(citizenship and freedom) — when we think that a foreign 
immigrant can now come here and get all the patriots 
fought for, for two dollars, and put his voice into 
politics as soon as he lands; when we think that a for- 



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eigner can land here with empty pockets ; and upon 
landing, have a cheap American politician step up and 
inform him he is short on grievances, and enumerate a 
large list he should have or immediately become interest- 
ed in and try ; that he should join the anarchists to put 
down capital or some society to regulate and make every- 
j thing prosperous through legislation instead of labor ; 
fl when we see men born in this country going around as 
rj tramps ; when we see men once prosperous and consid- 
ered good business men in poverty and despondent; 
; , when we see men with wealth condemned ecause they 
.i have wealth, and men with poverty because they have 
c poverty ; we naturally wonder where all must end and 
I what will bring a peaceful and happy solution. 
t If farming is suggested, we are told this does not pay ; 
that too many are farming. The small merchant com- 
i plains that the department store is destroying his busi- 
• ness. The farmer wants freight rates put down ; em- 
\ ployees want shorter hours and wages put up, while 
bondholders complain because dividends are not paid 
promptly and securities decline. 

Colleges turn out more baseball and football graduates 
than statesmen, and so it goes, from the government bor- 
rowing gold to pay expenses, to clerks on small salaries 
; borrowing to pay interest to buy parlor furniture. 

When we look conditions squarely in the face and are 



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told that the money of the country is only about twenty- 
five dollars per capita, while the debt obligations, if all 
were put together, public and private, would amount to 
four hundred dollars per capita ; that all the per capita 
cash would only pay about six per cent of the per capita 
debt ; that all the money in the United States would not 
pay the demands of congress, if appropriated, for four 
years ; when we look these conditions squarely in the face 
and think the country has been built up, and is still being 
built up, on borrowed money and immigration, our legs 
would never stop trembling and our hair would never lie 
down again, only for strength and comfort gathered from 
natural law and The Earth. Thanks to these supports; 
these- are our safeguards; when everything else grows 
dark and doubtful these stand and shine like a star. 

As before stated, the period preceding birth is one of 
seriousness and anxiety. The country to-day is in an 
advanced state of pregnancy. Like everything else, even 
the truth is sometimes buried so deep and lost from sight 
so long it has to be resurrected. 

Multiplying has been going on in different directions 
and in different ways a long time, without any apparent 
attention to results. Not only has the population multi- 
plied in numbers from natural causes and immigration, 
but debts, extravagances and speculation have multiplied 
until there is general confusion. 



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The cause of hard times and want of confidence is be- 
cause people cannot pay their debts ; if every one could 
pay promptly, hard times would disappear like a snowball 
on a hot stove. Times can't get better till people can 
pay, and they can't pay till they are better ; this is like two 
millstones grinding against each other empty. 
7 The people of the United States are thinking as never 
3 before, and the people of other nations are looking on 
j and thinking also; waiting to see if it is possible for classes 

l and masses of all kinds to enter freely into a government, 
J head over heels, and outshine all the balance of the world 

1 in advancement and prosperity. 

j 

THE PROBLEM IS A GREAT ONE. 

The flowing and mixing of all kinds of humanity to- 
' gether to maintain freedom and a high standard of gov- 
; ernment is a matter worth the attention of all. Many 
regard it as something to end sooner or later in failure. 

But Natural Law and The Earth say no. To get a 
correct view of anything it must be considered under the 
light of Time and natural forces. 

It is very natural that great freedom should reign in 
this country, for it sprang up here spontaneously. Con- 
ditions were created and waiting for it. This makes a 
difference. Man was not obliged to clear the way for it ; 



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he simply had to take possession and preserve that which 
nature ajid nature's God had furnished. 

It is very natural that the American people should 
freely give that which was so freely received from Provi- 
dence — the freedom of the land. The spirit and atmos- 
phere about America is different from any other country, 
because a monarch was never allowed to exist or get a 
foothold here ; nature and man were, and still are, both 
against it. This makes a strong combination for a 
crowned head to run up against. 

Some express alarm at the freedom with which for- 
eigners are allowed to come here and enter into citizen- 
ship and possess our land ; viewed superficially it might 
look doubtful ; but looked at from the bottom it is not 

alarming. It is true, it makes a difference who the for- 
eigner is and for what he comes. 

All who come may not be up to the standard of George 
Washington and Thomas Jefferson, as citizens on arrival ; 
at the same time, as soon as a foreigner puts his foot on 
our land he undergoes a great change. He is changed 
from a foreign peasant, or serf possibly, to an American 
freeman and freeholder. This is a decided and sudden 
elevation ; but in this case, if American citizenship is 
cheapened and lowered, the foreigner is correspondingly 
elevated. If there is a loss in one way, there is an equal 
gain in another, so the general equilibrium of the world 
is preserved. 



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The question now is, will the foreigner appreciate the 
advantages and benefits bestowed on him and help keep 
up our institutions, or will he turn around and smite the 
hand and land that does so much for him? 

LET US LOOK INTO THIS. 

The fact that he speaks in a foreign tongue does not 
affect his love of home and liberty ; the fact that he has 
been shut up under a King makes him love and appreciate 
liberty all the more. 

He is like a horse that has been confined in a stall and 
not allowed to run free. When he gets out, liberty is 
wonderfully sweet to him and he will never leave fresh, 
green fields to chew dry hay at a manger again unless 
caught and dragged back. 

NOT HE. 

Allowing foreigners to swarm into this country may 
seem dangerous and downward in some respects, but it is 
not half as dangerous for this as for foreign countries. 
Every foreigner who comes here and does well in the air 
of freedom, under the Stars and Stripes, discontents ten 
foreigners left behind living under crowned heads and 
standing armies. 

There is not half as much probability of foreigners who 



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come here to live destroying this government as there is 
that their coming will upset the government they have 
left behind. Every foreigner who comes here and pros- 
pers is a living advertisement against royalty. All na- 
tions have grown broader and more liberal since the es- 
tablishment of American Independence. The inde- 
pendence and freedom of this country is fast permeating 
the whole world, and will go on till all are free. 

There is more probability that prospective heirs to 
crowns will be overthrown than there is that the Ameri- 
can Government will be overthrown by foreigners who 
come here and are taken into citizenship. 

This country is so strong from natural conditions, it is 
the touchstone of liberty and influences all who touch it. 
Those who have touched it thus far have been influenced 
by it and have not tried to pocket or carry away the stone 
for a relic. Those who believe in the general advance- 
ment of humanity see here, and come here only to find, 
the greatest future possibilities. 

This country has demonstrated what opportunity can 
do ; it has demonstrated that there are thousands in the 
common walks of life equal to the best, if given oppor- 
tunity to rise. 

It has demonstrated that the common walks are full of 
people equal to Kings and Queens; this of itself is a 
stronger feature than any Monarchy can possibly present. 



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So much for America and all blood in it, mixed or other- 
wise. It will continue to flow in from all civilized nations, 
and the spirit of freedom will continue to revolutionize 
and send it back over the earth as from the head of a pure 
fountain. 

It is not necessary to worry about the future of this 
country on account of the foreigner. 

As it has risen through natural conditions to its pres- 
ent size and glory, it will be more able and better pre- 
pared from experience and age to take care of itself in the 
future. 

The safety of letting foreigners enter freely into this 
country is founded in nature, and it is not necessary to go 
beyond the farm barnyard to see it. 

When a hen has a family to scratch for, she stands by 
it with the loyalty of a true patriot, no matter whether she 
is Plymouth Rock, Muffled Poland or Black Spanish. 

Like a loyal mother, she spreads her wings and hurls 
herself against any odds in defense of her offspring. 

Go to the Berkshire, or any other shire, and try to take 
a young pig from its nest, and the mother hog will meet 
you with the courage of a Napoleon. 

Go to the nest of the eagle, or den of the lion, and en- 
croach upon their home and young, and see what is 
found. And if not satisfied after looking theree, go to 
the bulldog and try to take a pup from its nest, and pub- 
lish to the world your experience. 



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Go to the old gray goose sitting under the barn and 
undertake to disturb her in her domestic and family rela- 
tions, and you will crawl out wiser but with less clothes, 
and a gander on top of you. 

Go to the wild crane that soars in the air beyond the 
reach of a rifle, and she will drive her beak through your 
skull to protect her nest and young. 

Every animal and bird, from the lowest to the highest, 
stands by home and family. This is nature and natural 
law. 

Is man below the brute and bird in this respect? 

Give him a home, give him something to live for and 
fight for, and I care not whether he be Dutch, Irish, 
Scandinavian, English or American, he will pour out his 
blood and meet death to defend it. 

The United States is great and strong in this relation. 
She has given homes to millions, good ones and grand 
ones, and has many loyal hearts to care for and defend her 
on this account. 

Anyone, man enough to build up a home and a family 
on the soil in this country, can be depended upon to de- 
fend his fireside, whether he has had it two hundred years 
or but two hours. 

The man who obeys the command, "Be fruitful and 
multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it," is a safe 
citizen anywhere on earth. 



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Still, our legs tremble and our hair is inclined to stand 
on end when it is seen what people must go through and 
endure to get where natural conditions are forcing them. 
Thousands must be made over and receive a new educa- 
tion, get old ideas out of their heads and new ones in. 
This will be to many like pulling teeth. 

There is a great mixture — many are "hard up" and in 
debt; to draw good from this condition is the problem, 
but there is good in it, and good will come of it. 

When a baby is weaned, it cries and makes a great fuss ; 
a calf bawls still louder ; a colt tries to tear a stall down, 
and one small-sized pup will keep a whole neighborhood 
awake for a month. 

This is weaning time in the United States, and so many 
are howling all at once on this account it is naturally a 
little confusing; but time will quiet and settle all, then 
everyone will wonder at their foolishness. 

Experience is the greatest of all teachers ; without this 
we would not know or amount to much. If we never 
got lost we would never have to look for the road and 
know where to find it. If we never got lost we could 
not tell others the' feeling and danger and warn them 
against it. 

Man must not only have experience, but he must be 
pressed to get the sap out of him — but not pressed to 
death. He must have grief and misfortune to make him 



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think and appreciate everyday blessings. Blessings are 
not always regarded as such until taken away. If this 
generation does not appreciate its opportunities, it will 
confer good on the next by exposing its folly ; it will be 
useful in this way, if no other. 

The future of America is an important question. 

Blindness is said to be one of the blessings of the 
future; that we do not know what the future holds, is said 
to be the foundation of present contentment. If we 
knew we might be miserable. 

Whither are we drifting a£ a nation? Where is the 
rock on which to build? Where is the path leading to 
safety? 

Should immigration be shut off and commerce re- 
stricted ? Impossible. 

Our gates have stood open so long, it would be hard to 
close them now. 

Establish an elevated standard of citizenship and the 
blood of the earth can flow this way with safety. A for- 
eigner able to show proper standing might vote on the 
day of arrival better than some who have been here ten 
generations. v 

A low, cheap standard of citizenship naturally draws 
low, cheap citizens. 

It is hard to separate sheep from goats when crowding 
through a gate all together ; an elevated standard would 
grade and separate them after getting through. 



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An honest, industrious foreigner, who comes here to 

i 

piake a home, can be trusted as a citizen with perfect 
safety; that is, if he comes to make a home. Habits of 
economy, with capacity and willingness to work, attained 
anywhere, make him safe and desirable. 

A native American, loaded with habits of extravagance 
and principles of dishonesty, will not hold up free institu- 
tions any better or longer than a good, honest foreigner. 

3 

The subject of immigration is one of great importance, 
calling for careful and wise regulation. Foreigners have 
helped build up and preserve this country, and will con- 
tinue to do so as much in the future as the past. 

A man who takes land to make a home and raise up a 

family is a more desirable citizen and entitled to more 

consideration than the wandering "bum," regardless of 
i 
nationality. 

A fixed and elevated standard of citizenship would be 
justice to all, and the time has come when there should 
be a fixed plan to perpetuate national growth and de- 
velopment. 

There should be a "base line," absolutely fixed and 
? agreed upon by all, as the one plan for future progress. 

A fixed idea should be declared and published to the 
world as "the base idea of the United States." And this 
;"base idea" should be elevated and made to rise above all 
others, like a lighthouse above the sea. 



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It should be like the sun — rise every morning and keep 

rising ; shine every day and keep shining. 

The United States is the natural and proper place for a 
"base idea" to grow and flourish, for advantages found 
here to support this kind of an idea furnished support to 
build the nation and still support it. 

The base furnished by nature for man to stand and live 
upon should be the "base idea." This should be clearly 
pointed out and kept constantly in view ; guide boards 
and mile posts should be put up not only to keep, but to 
compel, recognition of it as the broad highway leading to 
happiness. 

The "base idea" should be to grow and progress ac- 
cording to divine and natural law. 

Present needs and future hope depend upon this. Its 
necessity is found in the text, "Be fruitful and multiply, 
and replenish the earth and subdue it." Here philosophy, l 
history and religion are combined. 

By the light of this command the past can be seen and 
the future read. 

Advantages afforded by the earth are why the first 
colonies came here ; advantages afforded by the earth are 
why our government was established and now exists ; ad- 
vantages afforded by the earth are why people have 
flocked here like birds to a cherry tree. They have come 
for the fruit and to sing in the trees. Let them come and 



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( gather and sing, but fix a standard and a base on which 
to do it. 

When we see all kinds and classes pouring in from all 
[parts and putting a voice in the government before chang- 
ing their clothes, where the main idea is selfishness, 
money-loving, money-grabbing and debt-making; every 
fellow for himself and "Gammel Eric" for the hindmost; 
when real conditions are looked squarely in the face, it is 
impossible not to think of the foundation on which we 
stand. Present conditions are forcing examination of 
our foundation, and it is being looked into as never be- 
fore. 



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CHAPTER XVI. 
THE EARTH AS A COUNTRY TEACHER. 

Great numbers have been, and are still, living on pros* 
pects. Prospects are good things, but when they fail 
or slip away and the numbers keep increasing who are 
without any other support, something more substantial 
must be had. Something that will not fly so quickly; 
something more docile and less scary. 

Prospects are as good as anything else as long as they 
can be passed for cash at the bank, but when the bank 
shuts down on them and you have to carry your prospects 
away in your hand, or in your bosom, it is very em- 
barrassing. 

The trouble at present is, too many are suffering from 
an overproduction of unproductive prospects. 

When a man gets a large amount or number of pros- 
pects on hand on which he cannot realize, and this is all 
he has for support, he is called "hard up" ; and this con- 
dition seems to have become somewhat chronic. 

When a man thinks he is going to realize on prospects 
and cannot, the result is disappointment. Disappoint- 
ment is the distance and difference between anticipation 
and realization. 



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The time used to be when people with gold would trade 
it off for almost an kind of a prospect, but they are now 
so familiar with the distance between anticipation and 
realization they want the best of security and the other 
fellow to bring around his prospects with interest on them 
in cold cash. This has upset the sale and exchange of 
j prospects and left dull and discouraging times for every- 
L one without legitimate business. 

There are and will continue to be plenty willing to 
swap prospects for prospects, but purchasers for cash 
cannot be relied upon to snap up everything that comes 
along as they did in "boom" times. 

The man who has nothing must get something. 

How? Earn it ; work for it. 

Who is going to employ him? 

If he cannot get anyone else to do it he must employ 
himself; he must become a "boss" and dictator and have 
himself for a subject. By practicing on himself a while 
he will know all about both sides of the question. By 
being his own master and his own servant he will under- 
stand the subject of both capital and labor. 

He must go onto land and get a living from the soil ac- 
cording to the Creator's plan. 

That is the meaning of these times clearly and unmis- 
takably. 

In one sense they might be called hard, not properly 






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understood they might be considered tough and gloomy. 
Looked at through the trinity of nature and natural de- 
velopment, present conditions can be easily understood ; 
when understood they can be cheerfully endured, for then 
labor is not labor — it is only pleasant effort to reach the 
desired end. 

"BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY." 

"Be fruitful" are the first words spoken, and this is the 
first thing to do to get a start. 

To "be fruitful" means to be industrious ; to be produc- I 
tive of fruit. It does not mean just the study of the mul- 
tiplication of human beings ; it means to have fruit for 
the children to live on ; it means to provide for the present 
to meet the future; it means intelligent and thoughtful 
care of conditions and results. It is something in ad- 
vance of multiplying. The text is "Be fruitful and multi- 
ply." It does not say multiply without being fruitful ; it 
is a command for care and provision before multiplica- 
tion. 

It does not say to the pauper, multiply paupers ; but as 
the Creator himself was fruitful in advance of man's com- 
ing by preparing the earth for him to live on, He said to 
man, "Be fruitful," for He knew the importance of pre- 
paring in advance of life for the support and development 
of life. 



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The desire and way to multiply is easy and Joes not 
need cultivation or training, but caring for the multipli- 
cation is another thing. To do this requires fruitful 
J thought and frugality. 

Conditions the world over show that people have con- 
founded the word "Fruitful" with the word "Multiply," 
and have multiplied faster than they have been fruitful 
to provide for results. Fruitfulness means provision for 
the fruit that is produced. 

Like every other law of nature, increasing and multi- 
plying is a law unto itself and creates conditions that 
build up or destroy themselves. 

Infancy is a tender age, one that needs care and 
nursing. 

In the great work of creation growth is an important 
factor, and time is necessary to growth. To be in the 
right direction growth must harmonize with Time and 
Space. 

Perfect development is growth in harmony with Time 
and Space ; when growth contributes to happiness and 
perfection, by reason of growing, it is in harmony with 
nature and natural law and in the right direction. Pres- 
ent conditions mean that the increase and spread of the 
human family has reached a point where it is time for the 
family to stop and take a look at its shape, and see how it 
agrees with Time and Space. See whether its growth is 



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in a direction to contribute to happiness and perfection 
by reason of growing. 

If not, it must change its course and shape and get in 
harmony with right conditions. 

If the increase and spread of dollars is of such great 
importance, how much greater is the increase and spread 
of life? 

Here is something worthy of deepest thought. Undei- 
standing and regulating the subject of life is the highest 
work of life. 

If the increase and spread of life is important, its shape I 
and direction is equally so. Unless life grows and 
spreads in the right direction it is out of balance and har- 
mony with itself. If not in harmony with perfection it is 
imperfect and out of line with happiness. 

Man was made to grow and spread and become great 
and grand, but he can only become great and grand as 
he grows in harmony with nature and natural law. He 
can only grow in this way as he goes in the direction 
pointed out by the author of life and nature; in the di- 
rection pointed out as the way to "dominion" over all 
things. 

If he does not go in the direction in which he is told 
"dominion" lies, he cannot hope to find or attain it. 
The Text is too important to slight or pass over lightly 
To be understood and appreciated, it must be looked 



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at on all sides and under all conditions ; it is a subject that 
can only be understood and appreciated as life increases 
to prove its truth. 

The increase and spread of life proves its truth, and will 
continue to prove and make it clearer as time advances. 

If not the most important text of all it would not be 
first. 

WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? 

The increase and spread of life. Whose life? Man's. 

The term man implies consciousness. The term con- 
sciousness implies man's knowledge of himself and other 
things. 

To have knowledge of himself and other things, he 
must be aware of conditions and relations to which he 
is subject ; he gains this knowledge through his nature, 
by being a part of the trinity of creation and nature. 

Man is the fruit of the union between God and the 
Earth, between Spirit and Matter. God is his Father and 
the Earth is his Mother. As it is a law of nature that the 
union of two different bodies or substances creates a third, 
the nature of which is like the two united, man being the 
fruit of the union between spirit and matter partakes of 
the nature of both ; and it was the most natural of all 
things in the order of creation for the Father, when he 
put infant man on the bosom of Mother Earth to nurse 



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and grow, to tell him about his mother; how to treat 
her and what she would do for him. As the earth is 
the mother of man and man's growth and development 
depend upon both parents, the one next to him, the one 
he sees, feels and lives on ; the one who gives him cake 
and candy ; the one he is first and constantly with, is the 
most natural one to study and know first. 

Therefore the Father said, "Be fruitful and multiply, 
and replenish the earth, and subdue it." In speaking 
this way He was unselfish. He wanted his wife, man's 
mother, to receive attention and be honored. He knew 
when the offspring grew large and strong through time 
and knew the mother, she would tell of the Great Father ; 
tell of His great works and wonderful powers ; tell how 
He is able to make the inanimate conscious ; tell how He 
is able to make the dust rise up and think and speak, and 
call Him blessed. 

He knew that as man grew large and strong he would 
sit on mother's lap and look at bright stars and shining 
worlds above him; that* through her every singing bird 
and fragrant flower would proclaim Him. "Great is the 
Father and great is Mother Earth." 

TIME IS CONTINUOUS AND UNBROKEN. 

To harmonize with Time life must be continuous and 
unbroken. 



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Life cannot be represented by a broken chain. It must 
be by one continuous and perfect. 

By finding the parentage of man and by looking at life 
as an unbroken chain we get our bearings and find our 
way. 

God is the author of man. He made but one and He 
made him in the shape of a conscious germ or seed, to 
grow and become large as a grand whole, to fill Time 
and Space unbroken. 

The conscious world cannot be filled any faster and 
farther than consciousness grows to fill it. 

When God made man, He told him something. He 
told him what to do. In telling him this, He spoke as 
God, not as one man speaking to another. 

In telling him, He spoke in harmony with His Godlike 
nature, in harmony with His relations to Creation and 
life. 

Therefore, to be understood, God must be looked at 
and heard in His Godlike nature, as the head of All 
Trinities talking to the head of one Trinity. 

When God told man to "be fruitful, and multiply, and 
replenish the earth, and subdue it," it might be said He 
was talking to Himself, about Himself; for man was a 
work He had just finished and He was but putting His 
own work in operation when He told man what to do. 

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would have been lost ages ago on the desert air ; only for 
this His sphere would be insignificant and His Kingdom 
a graveyard, without hope of resurrection. 

Only for this, if He could survive at all, He would be a 
Being of labor and not one of rest ; for every time He 
wanted a man He would have to get some earth and work 
to make one. 

By making man to increase and spread he is in har- 
mony with the infinity of creation ; in this way he takes on 
God's image and likeness, by covering Time and filling 
Space. He can only do this through continued growth. 

Knowing that God made but one man, and by looking 
at life as an unbroken chain man is more in the image of 
God to-day than was Adam in the Garden of Eden, be- 
cause he is that much older and larger, and knows from 
actual experience and existence through many centuries 
more than he did when a seed in the shape of Adam ; man 
knows now from living, from spreading and growing over 
Time and Space ; Adam only knew from being told, and 
a woman had more influence over him than his Maker ; 
man knows now the difference between God and a 
woman — that is, the majority of them do. 

The older and larger man grows the clearer and more 
important will the text grow under consideration. 

By looking at life as an unbroken chain we see, hear 
and feel the entire length of creation; creation is un- 



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broken and all batteries are in order and open, from the 
first word spoken down to the present moment. 

By looking at life as an unbroken chain God's voice is 
as much clearer to-day as the difference in time between 
breathing into Adam's nostrils and the breath we are now 
drawing. 

By looking at life as an unbroken chain the words 
spoken to Adam are just as much clearer as the increase 
and spread of mankind has been great. 

If the increase and spread of life is important and de- 
sirable, its support is equally so and a knowledge of where 
and how to get it is indispensable. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 

THE EARTH AS A PARENT. 

Man was not told to "multiply" without being put in 
possession of a way to live and support the increase; 
where and how to do it was made plain to him. 

Knowing the importance of life and its growth, let us 
now look to its support. The exact order of nature was 
followed in imparting knowledge to man ; his attention 
was first directed to the earth out of which he came. Be- 
ing taken from the earth, he is naturally interested in it on 
account of its near relationship and it was important he 
should know it for this reason, if for no other, first of all. 

The text follows the exact order of nature and creation 
in imparting knowledge. When a baby is born the first 
thing in the order of its nature is breath, the next is 
food. This is the order followed in making man and 
imparting knowledge to him. God first breathed into 
his nostrils the breath of life, after this He told him where 
to get food and how to continue to get it. 

He was told of mother earth and labor, and he found 
it and still finds it, just as told in the beginning. And 
man and his mother are still here bound together by the 



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chain of labor — and man can only progress and grow 
according to the order of nature and the way pointed out. 

It is a law of nature that conditions take care of and 
provide for themselves. The earth regulates and puts 
conditions in order that are out of order, and by so doing 
builds up and regulates man's progress. 

Some parts of the earth are always open and inviting 
settlement from overcrowded parts. Another feature is 
deposits in the earth are a source regulating man's prog- 
ress and development; there are always deposits in the 
earth inviting labor and invention and stimulating hopes 
of wealth and happiness. 

When disappointments and disasters come in other 
pursuits, man turns to the earth as his never failing par- 
ent and says, "Mother will support me if I labor." 

It is a fact that disappointments and disasters fill other 
pursuits, and The Earth is now the only hope, the only 
rock on which to build. Many conditions are taken for 
disastrous which are only blessings in disguise. 

People complain of hard times when in good health 
and there is an abundance of everything to be had 
through intelligence and labor. 

THEN WHY HARD TIMES? 

It is a law of nature that Time brings out the true 
condition and value of everything. 



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Every man's life bears fruit ; his true nature and habits 
may not be known for a time; he may drink for years 
and not have it known ; he may steal and not get caught, 
but sooner or later his true character comes out. It 
is the same with a nation as with an individual. It may 
go on and on, apparently progressing, but sooner or 
later its foundation will be exposed and its true condition 
revealed. 

One may live on borrowed money and prosper appar- 
ently like a "green bay" tree, till the last pay day comes, 
then, suddenly and to the surprise of everyone but him- 
self, he finds himself on the street. Pay day is the test 
of prosperity. 

If people speculate and are extravagant, time makes 
it known. 

The amount spent over the income must be credit, or 
so much off the main loaf; it represents loss or gain in 
any event. 

If man is industrious and economical, that will be 
known. 

The facts about present conditions are, too many have 
been trying to get rich off of borrowed money, and in 
anticipation of wealth from borrowed capital have lived 
extravagantly. Prospects in many cases have exploded, 
and left holders short on both credit and cash, with a 
lot of extravagant habits and debts on hand to contend 
with like rats in a cellar. 



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This is a trying fix for the most ingenious. Where a 
man has habits of his own which he is not able to sup- 
port, to say nothing about those of a large family and a 
few intimate friends, and being pounded by creditors 
night and day, he is between double bars. It is bad 
enough to be pounded by creditors, but to have a lot of 
habits you have petted turn around on you at the same 
time and worry you because you cannot gratify them is 
ingratitude of the rankest order. 

When buckwheat is only a cent a pound not to have 
enough to get one cake is rough on the producer of buck- 
wheat as well as the individual who has a strong appe- 
tite for cakes. 

HOW CAN GOOD COME OUT OF HARD 

TIMES 

Hard times are the result of departure from natural law 
or not understanding it. 

Every one is a consumer, but every one is not a pro- 
ducer. 

It is a law of justice as well as nature that every in- 
dividual able to work should perform useful and intelli- 
gent labor to the extent of reasonable support. 

There is enough produced in the United States for 

: the support of all, but the trouble about the divide is, all 

do not help produce it, and some who do help do not 






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always get their share, while those who do not help 
sometimes get too much. 

It cannot be denied or overlooked, borrowed money 
and immigration have been a great source of our de- 
velopment. A desire for sudden riches is also very prom- 
inently before us. 

Results from these causes show for themselves. Op- 
portunity is always open for redemption, and all can 
be redeemed through nature and natural law, but in no 
other way. 

If natural conditions are allowed to prevail, in a few 
short years the people will thank heaven for these times, 
on account of the wisdom and experience gained from 
them. 

LET US SEE WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING. J 

Times have not changed or opportunities gone; true 
conditions have simply come to light, and people are dis- 
covering what they have been building on and with. The 
good sense of the masses will bring order out of confu- 
sion as soon as they see clearly from facts which way to 
go. Present conditions are brought about through nat- 
ural causes, and are to mark an epoch in the history of 
mankind and the world. 

Natural law has come to assert itself and claim its |J 
own ; it has come to speak to man in a voice of thunder 



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and to make an impression on him that he will ever re- 
member. 

It has come to ask him what he has been doing and 
what he proposes to do; it has come to demand respect 
and obedience ; it has come to say to him, "You are now 
old enough and large enough to understand and walk in 
the path of knowledge." This is the meaning of these 
times. 

They have come at the right time and in the right way 
to establish a "base idea," one to underlie all other ideas, 
one upon which all other ideas must rest and be based. 

The "base idea" should be 
THE UNINCUMBERED HOME ON THE SOIL. 
The farm and home without a mortgage on it. A farm 
wheree a family can earn their support by their own labor, 
and labor to earn it ; this must be the "base idea" of the 
American people. 

These times mean that too many have forsaken the 
soil and too many have mortgaged it. That debt, ex- 
travagance and idleness are the moth and mildew over 
the tend; that they are fetters on the feet and chains 
around the body. This condition cursed people in olden 
times and is the curse today. 

The man who has been wise enough to stick to the 
soil and keep a mortgage off of it knows nothing of hard 
times. 



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Potatoes with him at ten cents are worth just as much 
to eat as at ten dollars, and he can live on them just as 
long, regardless of price, if not forced to sell them out 
of his mouth to pay interest. 

By doing a reasonable amount of work a man can be 
an independent gentleman on an unmortgaged farm and 
inform everyone else they can enjoy the same privilege 
and independence. 

A man in reach of good soil is not entitled to sympathy 
or charity if able to work. These times mean that more 
must go on the land, not to get rich but to earn a living 
and make a home ; it is a blessed good thing for the peo- 
ple and the country that it is so. It is not a hardship to 
live on land, but a privilege and a blessing; every in- 
dustrious family with ordinary intelligence can get a good 
support from an unmortgaged farm. 



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CHAPTER XVIII. 
THE EARTH AS A MIRROR. 

The danger confronting the American people is not 
that foreigners who come here will tear down the govern- 
ment. While the United States is surrendering land and 
privileges to the foreigner, the danger to the American 
is in thinking that he is going to be smart enough to live 
by his wits and let the foreigner do the hard, dirty work. 

The foreigner who does the work and builds up a 
home free of debt will be here supporting the govern- 
ment when many born here will be short on patriotism, 
wits and cash, through scheming to avoid legitimate la- 
bor and trying to live outside of common sense; many 
are beginning to recognize this condition. 

The industrious foreigner who has been wise and pa- 
triotic enough to take a good piece of land and make a 
home on it and keep a mortgage off of it is the peer of 
the best of them. 

The time has come for more truth and less "taffy," 
more facts and less complaint. 

The man waiting for politics to right his wrongs is 
wasting his time. The great majority must help them- 
selves instead of someone else. 



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That which can be mathematically demonstrated is not 
prophecy. To predict great and rapid changes in the 
future does not require deep thought or penetration ; all 
conditions indicate it. 

The increase and spread of mankind is a force that 
cannot be resisted. 

This was seen in the beginning and provision made 
for it. One billion and seven hundred millions of peo- 
ple on the earth, all born with wants that cannot be 
shaken off; three billion and four hundred millions of 
eyes and ears, listening and looking for something to 
cover bare backs and fill empty stomachs, is altogether 
a different condition from one lone man and woman on 
the earth, clothed in fig leaves. 

With one billion and seven hundred millions to grow 
from, all with passions, desires, loves, hates and ambi- 
tions, the increase and spread of the human family musi 
be very much greater in the future than in the past, and 
changes and revolutions must be in proportion. 

With seventy-seven millions of people now in the 
United States, the increase and spread must Be much 
greater in the future than in the past. If the population 
grows here in the future as in the past, in the year A. D. 
1925 there will be one hundred and forty millions, and 
this is only twenty-seven years hence. 

In the year 1950 there will be two hundred and eighty 






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j millions, and so on. If times are dull and labor markets 

overcrowded with seventy-seven millions, what is it going 

to be with one hundred and forty millions so near at 

hand? The baby born today will only have time to grow 

| up and get through school when it will be one of one 
hundred and forty millions. 

Then the greatest thing on earth will be a home free 
from debt, one that landlords and creditors cannot dis- 
turb or take away. 

Tramps, vagabonds and speculators will not save or 
keep up a good government ; they will help pull it down. 

The unincumbered home and homeholder, the man 
with a home to love and fight for, whether he be native 
or foreign born is the one who will build up and save 
the nation, preserve peace and promote prosperity. 

Intelligent action is always necessary and demanded, 
always has been and always will be. That which is 
necessary and demanded at the present time is a "base 
idea/' a plan on which to grow and stand individually and 
nationally. 

WHAT DEMANDS THIS? 

Natural conditions, the growth of mankind and the 
forces and operations of nature. 

The first thing necessary is to unload a load not want- 
ed and get something that is. What load is this? A 



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load of ignorance, false ideas and debts. Where did so 
many pick up all this dead weight and useless rubbish, 
and how did they happen to load up with it? 

It has been years accumulating ; false teachers, leaders 
and nations have been sowing and blowing over the land 
until the crop is now like one of wild mustard. 

Every one has been looking for prospects; but look- 
ing for, and being a good judge of prospects, are two 
different things. 

Many have seen objects ahead they have taken for 
bright prospects, very flattering ones, and the more chey 
pursued and looked the more certain they were that 
they were genuine prospects, but on getting up to them 
found they were "mud hens" instead of game birds. 

Many have loaded up with prospects, not that they 
expected to use themselves but to-turn over to someone 
else at an advanced figure ; but promises and obligations 
became due before they could unload, and they are now 
rubbing their heads by the wayside thinking what to do 
next. This is a serious condition calling for treatment. 

When great prospects are loose in the land, walking 
around six feet high with bangs and a trail on ; when 
corner lots are going up in cities and there is money for 
every kind of an enterprise that promises a quick return, 
it is hard to keep the farmer's son on the monotonous 
farm. 






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< He wants to go to town, get a clerkship, smoke cigar- 
ettes and wear liver-colored shoes with pick-axe fronts. 
He goes, and every time this young man writes home 
he asks his father for money to buy a bicycle, and ad- 
! vises him to sell the farm and come to town where it is 
not so lonesome. This has been going on until cities are 
overcrowded, and in thousands of cases a foreigner owns 
the "old home" and the boy who left the farm for a 
clerkship and liver-colored shoes is now a tramp. His 
employer failed in business and had to give the clerks 
an indefinite vacation ; expenses and competition broke 
him up, and left him in a place called "The hole." 

When a man gets in "the hole," without a dollar, 
everything is unusually dry and flat with him, until he 
catches a glimpse of something he thinks is another 
prospect, or a large flock ahead of him. Then he bright- 
ens up and quickens his step to get nearer the old-time, 
familiar objects; and sometimes he gets out, and some- 
time he gets farther in "the hole," and takes a whole 
lot of good people in with him who were never there be- 
fore. 

"The hole" is a treacherous place to fool around and 
a hard place to get out of when once in it, especially 
when it commences to cave. 

Well, here we are, and more coming. 

There seems to be whole families and holes all around 
us. What is to be done? 



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When too many get in the same fix, there is not sym- 
pathy enough to go around. But the right and duty to 
be a man, a whole man, a white and intelligent man, can 
never be buried in a hole or anywhere else. 

Thank goodness, the earth with all its supplies and 
teachings is left ; with or without a mortgage, it cannot 
be taken away. A creditor can foreclose his claim on a 
little piece of it, but the earth itself he has to leave where 
his mortgage describes it. 

THIS IS A GREAT BLESSING. 

If this was not so the earth would be full of holes ; it 
would be like a sieve, if creditors could carry off that on 
which they foreclosed ; you could look through it and see 
clear out on the other side of China. If this was the 
case some one would be falling through all the time and 
getting hurt, or hurting some one on the other side. 

The second start after getting out of "the hole," with 
wind gone, is different from the first start, where you had 
bright prospects, but no experience. 

When you come to start the second time, you often 
find your confidence in others gone and that which they 
had in you gone with it; both ran away together; and 
you feel as though one of your children had run away to 
get married, and your wants were all you had left. 

But let us give praise; let us be thankful we are here 



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and that a way has been provided whereby we can live as 
long as we stay. 

Let us be thankful that disappointments and struggles 
are full of value and rich experience. Let us be thankful 
that experience sometimes saves us when nothing else 
will ; that it brings cash when everything else fails. 

Let us be thankful for unselfishness ; let us be thankful 
that we have not gathered all the experience on the high- 
way of life, but have left plenty back on the road for 
others, where we found ours. 

Some time ago, not long since, we spoke of despond- 
•I ency and depression before birth. 

Yes, birth is a serious period, but is offset by the hope 
- of future happiness — by the growth and development of 
life. 

All that is necessary to make times prosperous and 

happy is for people to look at things in the right light. 

1 All that is necessary to make times prosperous and happy 

is for the people to have one great, large "base idea" on 

which to base the balance of their other ideas. 

The "base idea" should be to build according to the 
design of the 

DIVINE DESIGNER. 

Let us look once more at the unbroken chain of life, 
at the Trinity of creation, and examine this design. 



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Pardon is asked for repeating and saying it over and 
over ; forgive this time and it will not be repeated again 
if possible to avoid it. 

Eternal Life is the fruit of the union between Eternal 
Time and Eternal Space. This is the Supreme Trinity — 
the Supreme Designer. 

Man is the fruit of the union between God and the 
Earth. 

The fruit of the union between man and the earth is 
Home and Happiness — "Be it ever so humble, there is 
no place like home." 

Have you a home? If so, where is it? Is it yours? 
Or are you paying rent, or interest on a mortgage? 

MAN'S FIRST HOME IS ON EARTH. 

It is here he prepares for future life ; impressions re- 
ceived here last through eternity. It is from here he 
is launched into hell or heaven ; then it must make a dif- 
ference what we do here, and how we do it — it certainly 
does. 

To build up a home and be happy, man must do that 
which he was told to do. 

WHAT IS THAT? 

"Subdue the earth. " Man comes from the earth, lives 
on it and goes back into it, therefore he should be mas- 



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ter of it and overcome it. When he does, he will rise 
above its conditions; then, instead of turning from the 
earth for light and strength, we should turn to it. 

Times are what people make them — they have power 
to make any and all kinds. If they go in the right di- 
rection they will be good ; if not, bad. 

Time and times both teach which way to go and what 
to do. 

I do not appear before the world as a prophet, but I 
wish to go on record as being able to see through an 
open door, one that is wide open, with a sign over it tell- 
ing where it leads. 

I wash to declare before the world that I see and feel 
a great, large, live force in and throughout creation ; one 
that is forcing everything before it. I wish to declare to 
the world that the increase and spread of life has an 
effect upon life ; that from this cause, social, political, in- 
dustrial and educational conditions arise and must for- 
ever be guided. 

I wish to declare to the world that twenty tons are 
heavier than one ton ; if the weight is increased twenty 
times it is just that much more on the scale beam or 
foundation. 

It does not require the gift of prophecy or deep pene- 
tration to see the present and read the future — in a few 
things at least. 



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If fifty gallons of boiling water and fifty of ice water 
were put together it would make one hundred gallons, the 
temperature of which would be an average between the 
two. 

Doubling the population of a country changes its con- 
dition and increases its needs and demands. 

If all kinds and grades of people come together to 
form a government, the national character will be the 
average of the grades united; neither boiling nor freez- 
ing — possibly lukewarm, or about right in which to wash 
the feet. 

If a man consumes beyond his capacity to pay, the 
difference between consumption and capacity is debt. 

If he consumes and has nothing with which to pay, 
he is a burden either on himself or on society. 

WHAT ARE THE FACTS. 

This country can and does produce much more than 
it consumes. All it ships abroad is in competition with 
the world ; the commerce between the nations is the com- 
mon level of the world; it represents the world flowing 
together. This level is growing and becoming broader 
every day. Through the medium of transportation and 
communication the world is being brought together. 
Through this medium, a baby born in India or Japan can 
and will come in competition with the American baby. 



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This country already has a labor capacity beyond the 
demand of employment, and every unemployed laborer 
is a competitor of the one employed, or would be. 

As long as the capacity to produce is greater than con- 
sumption and labor exceeds employment, to this extent 
are prices and industry affected; to just this extent are 
there dull or good times. The condition of one regulates 
the condition of the other. 

WHAT ARE THE FURTHER FACTS? 

Laboring classes are increasing faster than other class- 
es; just in this proportion the supply of labor is rising 
above the demand; with this presentation when are better 
times than now coming for the laboring man? 

LET US LOOK FURTHER. 

Let us grant the world is full of money, and good 
money ; if the one who has it cannot use it at a profit 
there is just as much made in letting it lie idle. He is 
just as wise to sit still and live on that which he has 
as to put it out without profit and take the chances of 
losing it. 

If the laboring man cannot find a market for his labor 
what is he going to do? He is not different from anyone 
else who has a commodity to sell ; he has labor to sell 
to produce something, instead of something to sell that 









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labor has produced ; the difference between a man who 
has labor to sell and one who has something to sell which 
labor has produced is the difference between a nickel and 
a five-cent piece. 

Both are competing with the world and living off of 
labor — unless it is some special article that only some 
special one can produce. 

If the capitalist cannot invest his money at a profit 
then his money is simply out of employment; it is like 
the laboring man who is idle and not getting ahead. 
Idle capital is money not working; money not working 
is as bad as a man not working, it will drag itself and 
everything else down by idleness. 

I do not wish to go on record as a prophet, but as 
being able to recognize natural conditions. 
. These times are not any different from any other times, 
only as time makes them so. 

IN THE LIGHT OF DEVELOPMENT THEY 
MEAN MUCH. 

Everyone knows what an axe is; they also know it 
makes a difference for what it is used — whether for chop- 
ping wood or for taking life. 

A rope is an innocent looking tool, and everyone knows 
what it is ; they also know it makes a difference for what 
it is used — whether to make a halter for a horse or for a 
man. 



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It is the same way with these times ; they are innocent 
'in appearance, but they are to mark an epoch in the 
history of the world ; in the history of mankind and crea- 
tion; and I want to go on record as recognizing this 
fact. 

I want to go on record that I did not take a black bear 
for a black squirrel, because both live in the woods and 
are black. 

The truth comes to light in some cases slowly and it 
often takes a long time to get prepared to receive or 
comprehend it. 

If life is not an unbroken chain, reaching from earth 
to heaven, then the Bible better be torn up, the churches 
down and science ignored. 

Many thoughts come and go on subjects we only know 
through faith. Faith is a belief that something exists; 
hope is a desire to attain it. 

Hope is just as much a reality as any other reality; it 
j is the path leading to reality ; it is the veil covering reality 
until the hoper is old enough, strong enough and suffi- 
ciently intelligent to be able to know and be trusted with 
the truth. 

Hope is a provision in creation for the entertainment 
of the human family while looking for the truth; the 
truth is a knowledge of reality. 

Hope is sometimes better than reality ; reality in the 



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form of hope is often better and stronger, and serves a 
better purpose than though it stood in full view. 

The uncertainty of the attainment of hope is also a 
blessed provision and a strong feature in its favor. 

To illustrate, let us suppose that when the King of 
Kings arose from the dead He had celebrated his victory 
over death as victories of great importance are usually 
celebrated. Let us suppose that when He came out of 
the sepulchre He had marched up town with His grave 
clothes upon His arm, followed by a brass band, and 
celebrated His victory over the grave; let us suppose 
He had mounted a platform and lectured on "sights and 
scenes in the other world: or, three days in paradise/' 

Let us suppose He had assured the people without 
any doubt that there is a better world beyond this, reached 
through the door called death ; that He had seen God 
and talked with Him ; that God is all forgiveness and all 
love; and at the close of His lecture on the beauties and 
certainties of the hereafter let us suppose He had bid the 
people a fond good-bye and invited them all to come 
and live with Him in a kingdom of glory that He would 
reign over forever, where there were no partings, no 
work, no sorrow, golden streets and no taxes; then 
raised His arms and turned into a beautiful spirit and dis- 
appeared in the clouds. 

What would have been the effect of removing uncer- 
tainty from hope and turning it into a reality? 



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What would have been the condition on earth that day 
and that night? 

Everybody would have cast the grave aside as noth- 
ing and committed suicide to follow Jesus and be with 
Him in His kingdom. 

The rush to the Klondike for gold would be nothing 
compared to the rush to eternity, if hope was unclouded. 
Every emotional person who had a butcher knife, or 
could have borrowed a razor, would have cut his throat 
and the earth would have been covered with putrid 
corpses beyond the possibility of living on it, if anyone 
had retained an inclination to stay after hope of future 
life had been made a certainty. 

A man would commit suicide before he would do a 
day's work. Even now, with a preacher picturing eternal 
torment and no hope for the sinner, plenty prefer taking 
the chances of a suicide in preference to working on 
earth. 

Everything is just right and just as it should be, even 
to the nature of hope. 

It now serves as a balance wheel; if any different, it 
would be a buzzsaw. 

The King of Kings came to stimulate faith and build 
up hope in man, to give him a chance to grow ; to turn 
his hope in the right direction. He came to give him 
milk in the shape of anticipation, not meat in the shape 



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cf reality. One ray of positive living evidence as to the 
great hereafter would be more than the human family 
could stand without being prepared in advance to re- 
ceive it. 

Knowing the other world in advance of getting there 
would be like a child knowing this one in advance of 
birth, and fretting and worrying over the future here; 
wondering how it was going to be treated. 

One grand provision of birth is, all parties are not con- 
scious of it at the same time. It is a good thing that 
consciousness does not come too soon ; it is a blessed 
provision that the one being born is not conscious of 
the importance of the event at the time ; if it was it would 
add a great many years of unnecessary worry to life 
and annoyance to parents. 

Life is a succession of conceptions and births. Life is 
evidence of light. By observing the order of creation 
we find light preceded by dawn; that the change from 
darkness to light is gradual ; that the noonday sun is 
never turned on to midnight darkness ; that the period 
between night and day is a growth of light, not a sudden 
burst of it. 

So it is with knowledge and the development of man ; 
this order in creation is necessary to consume and dis- 
pose of time. Nothing in the world is so wearing and 
depressing as time that rests heavily on the consumer ; 



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where it does not pass pleasantly and profitably. Some- 
times the hours preceding morning light are filled with 
anxious unrest, sometimes with sweet dreams. But 
whatever it may be, that which fills the mind and heart 
in no way affects the coming of light ; that is a condition 
belonging to Time alone, and when the time comes for 
any condition to appear it has to appear, no matter who is 
waking or dreaming, dressed or undressed. The fact 
that one believes or disbelieves in the coming of light 
j neither hastens nor delays its arrival. It is the same way 
with all things in the order of creation and nature ; when 
the time comes for the appearance or disappearance of 
certain conditions, they are certain in coming and going. 

Certain conditions are promised and looked for 
through the order of creation in man's development. 

Upon the fulfillment of certain conditions man is prom- 
ised dominion over certain things, which dominion is very 
minutely and particularly specified to be, "Over the fish 
of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every 
^living thing that moveth upon the earth. " 

Man's dominion is confined to the earth and things, 
upon it when he replenishes and subdues it. He is not 
promised control anywhere else as man, only on earth. 

As soon as this text is made the "base idea" for action, 
and its nature and importance fully comprehended, man 
and the earth will be revolutionized in the twinkling of 



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an eye ; then will hope turn to reality and the future to a 
bright and shining light. 

This condition belongs to Time and growth, and is 
certainly coming. When it fully dawns upon man, life 
will take on a bright form and the light of the millenium, 
like the light of morning, will foreshadow the noonday 
of perfection and intelligence. 

Man is not the author of life ; he is the evidence of an 
author ; he is a regulator of life, only to a certain extent in 
a certain way. The forces that create and regulate life 
are so arranged that man cannot interfere with them 
without affecting or interfering with himself. 



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CHAPTER XIX. 
, THE EARTH AS THE HEAD OF EDUCATION. 



The great force back of man, the one that regulates him 
and must continue so to do, is the increase and spread of 
mankind. This keeps up a constant rise in the river of 
life. As the river rises and grows broader and deeper 
and flows on it is lost in the great ocean of humanity, so 
those who navigate it must have an anchor and a com- 
pass to guide them as time bears them out and carries 
them on. To people on the Earth the anchor of life is 
the Earth. 

The increase and spread of mankind has a double 
operation ; it affects those in existence and those to come. 
A field occupied and filled up is different from one un- 
occupied. The business of man is to regulate affairs per- 
taining to himself. 

He undertakes to do this through education. 

Education consists in knowing what to do and how 
to do it. It is impossible to know what to do without 
looking into natural surroundings, the nature of our 
wants and the way to meet them. 

The needs of man are so great and varied that it takes 



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the united efforts of mankind to supply all needed. In- 
dustry is a chain covering this necessity. 

As the spread and increase of mankind goes on, it 
becomes a natural force calling into existence new and 
varied conditions; new education, new industries, new 
thoughts. 

Before education of any kind can be advanced or at- 
tained there must be a foundation on which to rest it. 
The foundation of education is found in man's wants; 
in his being a dependent being ; in being obliged to unite 
outside objects with inside desires to live. 

To bring an object to the support of a desire requires 
action and effort; to unite right objects and desires re- 
quires knowledge, hence the need of education. 

EDUCATION CONSISTS OF MORE THAN ONE 

IDEA. 

It consists of a chain of ideas wisely covering all con- 
ditions. It would be impossible for one individual to 
know all things and be able to do all things — this would 
be too much knowledge and power for anyone other than 
the Supreme Ruler to have or be trusted with. Hence 
the different industries and different talents scattered 
around and possessed by different ones in different local- 
ities and occupations. 



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Certain things are needed by all and common to ail ; 
to this extent education is on a common level and sought 
1 through a common channel. All require food and knowl- 
edge of how and where to continue to get it. 

Food is necessary to man, animals, birds, insects and 
fishes. 

It would seem with this common necessity running the 
entire length of the chain of ^ life that by this time the 
universal relation between the animate and inanimate 
would be sufficiently understood to at least solve the 
food problem ; that sufficient education and experience 
would have been gained to make the question of food 
supply simple and easy; that everyone would know just 
where and how to put his hands on at least enough to 
eat. 

That they do not, shows there is something deficient in 
education and educators. 
The Head of Education and the business world points 
; out the way to get food and all other things. 

He says, "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the 
earth and subdue it" ; to do this requires labor — hard toil 
! accompanied by sweat. It does not mean to stand off 
and try to talk a field of weeds down, but to down them 
with the plow or some other implement; it means to 
gather a harvest from seed sown by the hand, not planted 
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Natural law says man was made to labor. To unite 
an outside object with an inside desire requires action; 
this natural action, prompted by want, is called labor; 
but it should be pleasure. Man is full of desires on the 
inside that yearn for objects on the outside ; transferring 
one element or substance to put with another to support 
life is the basis of existence ; this is the foundation of la- 
bor, all that keeps humanity moving and makes it inter- 
esting. 

Sweat and brains belong together ; brains decide what 
to do, and sweat does it. 

One trouble at present is certain classes assume to fur- 
nish the brains and want others to furnish the sweat. 
This naturally causes friction and gets up irritation be- 
tween near and important relations. 

The great need is a more, equal distribution of not only 
wealth but intelligence — especially intelligence. 

If the man who furnishes the sweat will cultivate more 
brains of his own instead of letting someone else furnish 
them for him he will save a large amount of moisture 
and set a healthy flow of perspiration rolling off of the 
other fellow, which would be beneficial to both. 

Notwithstanding the great numbers, the great discov- 
eries and inventions, there are thousands unable to solve 
the food problem — not to mention good clothes. 

As long as education rests upon natural law it should 



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aim to understand and make clear its own foundation; 
it should teach that the present is the time to prepare 
for the future, in business as well as religion. 

That a foundation must be laid on earth to get to 
heaven. 

Knowledge gained on earth, about the earth, is the 
foundation of life hereafter. All worlds, lives and things 
become known through education. If it is necessary to 
provide for the development of life hereafter it is neces- 
sary to provide for its support here. 

SUPREME MEANS ABOVE ALL. 

This being true, the word of the Supreme Teacher is 
above all others in wisdom and value. 

Man knows the nature and effect of certain elements 
— elements like fire and water. 

If a lighted match should be put on a dry prairie and 
a flame should start and run and spread and increase and 
burn for six thousand years it is easy to imagine that 
the face of the earth would look very black and be greatly 
changed from a single spark. 

If a hole the size of an inch auger should be made in 
the bottom of the ocean, and as soon as the water com- 
menced running through the action of the running water 
should commence tearing and making the hole larger, 
and it should keep on, ripping and tearing and running, 



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for six thousand years, it is easy to imagine that a large 
body of water would accumulate from this cause, and if 
provision was not made for its care and use it would 
be without value, if not destructive. 

When the Creator turned a spark of life into a flame 
and set it to running and spreading over the earth in 
the shape of mankind, to be driven by whirlwinds of want, 
cyclones of passion and ambition, to rage and roar for 
thousands of years, He knew 7 what the effect and result 
would be of putting this conscious element in motion. 
He knew that forests would be hewn down, that rocks 
would be turned over and the earth looked into from 
circumference to center ; that as the flames of life spread 
and man grew, the One who lit the match would be 
looked for and the question would be asked, why He 
lit it ; and that Time, the Father of all things, would re- 
veal all things; and the One who started the flame of 
life would be discovered and brought to light through 
the light kindled. 

The match was lit and the spark of life turned into a 
roaring flame to make matter conscious of existence and 
man conscious of a Maker. 

Now that man has grown and spread like a flame for 
thousands of years, and in many cases been fruitful and 
many not ; now that he has subdued enough of the earth 
to have understanding and know there is a Supreme 






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Teacher, with a Supreme work to do, he can see all and 

know all by taking the text and weighing it in the light 

I 

of Supreme intelligence and Divine truth. 

The truth may bea long time coming, but get here soon 

enough after all. 

GREAT IS THE TRUTH. 

Thousands, yes generations, have waited and watched 
through tears and pleadings. With strained eyes and 
attentive ears they have looked for sails and listened for 
the dip of a golden oar on the silvery waves of Time, 
bearing a messenger with tidings of the truth which they 
have not yet seen nor heard. 



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CHAPTER XX. 
THE EARTH AS EVIDENCE OF TRUTH. 

Long, long ago the truth was left with man, to accept 
or reject as he might see fit. Man has never been with- 
out the truth ; it was told to him when he was made — he 
simply overlooks or forgets it. 

In discussing and looking for the truth, let us pause 
here and ask, were those who have gone before, or are 
those now looking for it, prepared to hear and know it? 

Suppose the time and the form in which the truth will 
come were known, and no preparation had been made to 
receive it, what advantage would there be in knowing 
it? Like everything else, the truth must be reached 
through Time and growth. 

Teachers, preachers, school books, law books, prayer j 
books and church steeples all look and point to future 
development as the guiding star and hope of life. They 
teach that the future will be affected by conditions of the 
present. Let us suppose a human being was taken where 
it could suddenly overlook the universe and see the 
truth, what would be the effect? It would be like put- 
ting a fly into a blast furnace or having a child put its 






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hand on a wire attached to the most powerful dynamo 
to study electricity. Its investigation would only go as 
far as touching the wire once. 

The truth must cover all Time and all conditions; 
otherwise it is not all of the truth. 

To a certain extent, the future must remain largely a 
mystery and matter of speculation ; when it gets be- 
yond this, Time will be brought together and the future 
and the present be as one. 

To a certain extent, the future can be judged and 
"determined. When man gets so he can read the future 
"and prepare for its emergencies, he will be a wonderful 
being. The future can be read now, the same as a head- 
light can be made to light the track in front of an engine. 
The headlight is limited in its power and capacity to 
\ show the track only for a certain distance ; it cannot light 
it the whole way. 

The future can be divided into two parts, the imme- 
diate and remote; both parts can be partially read 
through known conditions and the trinity of Time — par- 
ticularly the immediate. 

So far as human needs and knowledge demand, Time 
can be mathematically united and read. 

In mathematics, through given or known quantities, 
an unknown one can be found or determined. To the 
extent of knowing the present and the past, the future 



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can be read and determined with mathematical clearness. 

We know present needs and means of meeting them; 
we know some conditions whcih have extended over the 
past, must extend into and over the future; we know 
increasing weight requires additional weight to balance 
it ; we know increasing life increases demands to meet 
life ; to this extent, the future can be read through natural 
law and the mathematical arrangement of time. 

The future has two very prominent features; one is 
hope, the other fear. That which adds to hope is hap- 
piness, that which adds to fear is the reverse ; conse- 
quently anything that clearly adds to hope is to be de- 
sired and should be cultivated. Natural law presents 
just as many stars of hope as there are stars above. Wc 
conclude from this that hope must survive or there would 
not be anything for which to hope. 

We admit there is much space without stars. This is 
not evidence, however, that it cannot or will not be filled 
with them. The way to reach a star is often through 
great darkness ; and it is a fact that stars can be seen 
best when surrounded by darkness; therefore it is con- 
clusive that there is something besides darkness in the 
world and something darkness cannot put out or tear 
down. 

By responding to the hand of labor and yielding sup- 
port, the earth teaches hope as well as the stars. 






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As the Truth must cover all Time as well as part of 
it, to read and know the future conditions revealed by 
Time must be taken to determine unknown ones — or 
those desired. 

When we come to look for the Truth covering any 
part of Time we must go to the source from whence 
Truth emanates and look at it from the fountain head. 

When man can unite Time to cover the Truth and 
Truth to cover Time then can he measure progress and 
development. Being able to do this is evidence of 
growth and progress. When Divine and natural law 
agree, there is no doubt about having Truth for a foun- 
dation ; to know Truth has been the desire of sages, 
philosophers and saints. Many have known it, but lacked 
evidence to convince others. 

The one who holds sway and can prove all things is 
Father Time. 

He is able to do this because he has possession and 
access to all parts of Time ; the past, the present and the 
future — it is in his power to prove it, regardless of pe- 
riods or locations. 

When Father Time puts his official seal and endorse- 
ment on anything it is so, or he would not endorse it. 

He endorses the text under consideration and illu- 
mines the future with its truth, and calls in the million- 
aire and beggar to swear to it. Every condition of so- 
ciety is proof of it. 



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If everyone was fruitful, if everyone was self-support- 
ing, if everyone labored to gain the dominion promised, 
human beings could not multiply fast enough to be in 
each other's way or a burden to each other on the earth. 

The fact that many are not fruitful ; the fact that they 
multiply without paying any attention to commands ; the 
fact that a part are a burden upon another part ; the fact 
that they try to get away from labor instead of up to it; 
the fact that this text is not recognized and acted upon 
by all as the well-spring of truth and the fountain of 
strength, is evidence of man's ignorance and lack of 
growth in the path of light. 

I wish to go on record as seeing a hole in the wall of 
human affairs. Let us see what the condition would be if 
the truth of the text was recognized and acted upon by all 
as the "base idea." The partition between man and his 
Maker is a very thin one ; man is God in an unfinished 
state; man is God reaching out to fill Time and Space 
with conscious life and intelligence. 

Man, to become wise, must have experience ; to gain 
this, he must pass over a sufficient amount of Time to be- 
come familiar with natural laws and the working of Time. 
It is just as important that he should know what destroys 
and separates, as that which unites and builds up; hence 
Time and experience to get this knowledge. As Time is 
one of God's attributes, it is not strange man should con- 






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sume a few centuries to find out the truth. While look- 
ing for it he pays the taxes, supports the paupers and fills 
the jails and insane asylums with himself. All this adds 
to his experience and helps him find the way. When he 
finds it, and the truth dawns upon him, he is another be- 
ing, and the world and all his surroundings are trans- 
formed. 

I wish to go on record as saying that midnight dark- 
ness is breaking and the dawn of light growing ; that this 
dawn is a reflection of man's growth, which in Time will 
be a light unto itself ; that as man grows and spreads in all 
ways and directions the truth of the text will grow and 
spread with him till clear to all. 

Everyone is interested in the truth ; everyone is inter- 
ested in what Time has brought and will bring. The 
truth comes from being aware of perfection and imper- 
fection, of strength and weakness, of our relation to crea- 
tion and creation to us. This cannot be known instan- 
taneously. Knowing the truth is seeing by the light of 
Time. One who knows the truth has a vision extending 
in all directions. He is like a ball that rolls with the 
incline or force behind it. 

In trying to approach the truth and get under its in- 
fluence, there are two avenues leading to it: one is called 
stern realities and cold facts, the other imagination. 



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A STERN REALITY OR COLD FACT 

is something that can be seen and felt. It is something 
very cold, very real, and very stern. 

Imagination is trying to determine what is on the op- 
posite side of a hill that cannot be seen over. 

From natural surroundings and knowing the climate 
we are in, the general nature of the hidden side can some- 
times be determined by imagination aided by that which 
is found on the side where we are. It is so in studying 
the truth. 

THAT THERE IS A -FUTURE TO TIME, ALL 

AGREE. 

What is in that future for man none can positively tell. 
Some may tell, and tell correctly, but cannot prove they 
are correct till up high enough to see over the hill. 

A great many evidences around us suggest faith; faith 
suggests hope, and hope suggests patience and content- 
ment to wait till the truth can be known. By knowing 
there is a future ; that we are going towards it and it is 
coming towards us; that the future is only time in advance 
of us, which we are absolutely certain to meet, it is reason- 
able to presume that conditions which Time has proven to 
be true will apply to one period as well as another, 
whether ahead of or behind'us. 

Life is a trinity with conditions corresponding to Time. 



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THE FIRST CONDITION OF LIFE IS INCEP- 
TION. 

Inception is the life germ planted in man by the Cre- 
ator. Conception is the union of the elements of life in 
two bodies to form a third, the result of which is birth, 
• or new life. 

By looking into nature for shades and shadows by 
which to read the future, love is found to be a trinity, cor- 
j responding in nature with Time. 

Love commences in soft glances and sweet words: 
these are the advance agents of 

A TENDER PASSION. 

A young person who has not spent much Time on earth 
might not be able to read and understand the nature of a 
"soft glance" or sly wink; but an experienced mother 
might read in one wink the history of a life and turn the 
1 winker and blinker out of the house before he could make 
a second movement with either eye. 

The next link in the trinity of love is the 

FOND EMBRACE. 

When this is reached the trinity is complete. Love is 
the flickering light and lightning bug flashes of inception: 
of that which is planted in human nature. But by follow- 



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ing the path and the chain, we find that innocent smiles 
often end in stern realities, and lead the smiler not only to 
see what is on one side of a hill but all over it. 

By tracing life in its different stages and trinities, from 
smiles to love, and from love to reality ; and by connect- 
ing the trinity of knowledge and nature, we learn to read 
Time ; and that which may seem like imagination is the 
shadow forecast by real form. There never was a shadow 
without a substance to make it. 

From shadows of imagination we are led to look for 
the substance that makes them. 

In looking for the truth, whether through cold facts 
or imagination, there is one thing that never fails to pre- 
sent itself and prove itself to be true, and that is that every 
condition must end in intelligence. 

Unless this condition prevails, diamonds might as well 
ornament cast iron, and gold, lead. 

To presume that anyone is going to enjoy perfection 
without being perfect, that devils would be happy in the 
sphere of angels, is absurd. 

In looking for the truth through the eyes of imagina- 
tion or stern reality, if possible, let one imagine how he 
would feel waking up in the grave; what the sensation 
would be, if he should feel the dust creeping together and 
assuming his form on earth, and he was actually con- 
scious that he was really waking into eternal life. Imag- 



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ine, if possible, how he would feel lying there waiting for 
the trumpet to call him forth to join the hosts of heaven ; 
imagine him called out of the dark earth to rejoice and 
sing forever with angels. 

When he saw the contrast between his imperfect condi- 
tion and those made perfect through Time and good 
works, how could he be happy without intelligence and 
perfection to fit his surroundings? 

When the light of the truth dawned upon this imperfect 
soul heaven would be a place of torment and he woulcj 
look for the grave to crawl back into to hide his awful 
condition. 

We can see this through the eyes of imagination, be* 
cause there would be lack of harmony in natural sur- 
roundings. The drunkard to be happy must be drunk; 
he is miserable when sober. If not a drunkard he would 
not get drunk. 

The truth is impressive and important because it is an 
1 endless chain to which everyone is attached. We are car- 
ried down or up according to our relation to it. 

It is impressive and important because as soon as a man 
beholds it he sees the contrast between human weakness 
and imperfections and the greatness and grandeur of 
things eternal. But for the fact that man has all eternity 
in which to grow he would be without hope. 

When he realizes this he is encouraged to turn in the 



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right direction and press forward to a high end. Being 
an heir to eternity he must govern himself according to 
eternal laws to inherit and enjoy eternal gifts. When he 
realizes this and looks to see what is demanded and where 
he is, he finds himself in the wonderful mansion planned 
and constructed by the Supreme Architect of the universe, 
filled with endless beauties and wonders. 

Truth is the product and offspring of Time. It is a 
light shedding light upon Time, revealing the contents of 
Space. 

By this wonderful light man looks back to nis begin- 
ning and forward to his end, and he cannot look at and 
examine his condition without seeing and thinking of 
much more. To look at himself and think of himself, he 
must look at and think of the One who made him. To 
do this he must look at and think of the order of creation. 
To do this he must look at and think where the order 
comes from, and so on, till he finds himself surrounded 
by infinity and measuring worlds by the light of Time 
and Truth. 

The test of truth is harmony with Time and Space. 

If Time should bring to light the fact that that which 
had been taken for truth did not agree with it, that which 
was so taken and supposed to be the Truth would have 
to be given up, for Time can stand and Error cannot. 

Time is the measure, not the thing being measured. 









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That which does not cover or fill the measure is deficient ; 
not the measure. 

As looking at and trying to know the truth is looking 
at and studying creation, as near as we can ever come to 
the truth is through a knowledge of the operations of 
creation — through a knowledge of conditions that con- 
trol man. 

This light cannot be revealed any faster than it can 
penetrate the mind, and it cannot penetrate any faster 
than there is capacity to admit and ability to understand. 

It would require a long period to fill a barrel by putting 
in a single drop at a time. It would require a long period 
to dig a large cellar by taking out a single grain of earth 
at a time. This is the way the truth is received some- 
times ; it comes in single drops and single grains. Then, 
again, it may come like a flood or an avalanche. But no 
matter which way or what way it comes, we must be pre- 
pared to receive and act upon its dictates. 

Man is a servant under its command; it is not under 
him. 

We come now to look at the text in the light of truth 
and measure it by the great and perfect measure of Time. 

IMPORTANT AND IMPRESSIVE IT IS. 

We first look back over ages and see what man has 
done ; how he has grown and what on ; what he is doing 



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and how doing it; what he expects to do and what he 
must do. 

When we do this we see he has grown; that he has 
been through many things, seen much, suffered much, has 
much. We also see some conditions have not changed: 
that man is still on the earth and still looks to the earth 
for support. 

This condition has stood the test of Time, therefore it 
must be the truth. If it is the truth, it must be from the 
fountain from which truth flows; for there is but one 
fountain of truth, and that is the wellspring in the ever- 
lasting heart of eternity. • If this should dry up, life would 
become extinct. 

The truth is impressive and important because we are 
affected by it. It is doubly so when knocking at our very 
door and we know we must stand or fall by it. 

When we know this we know we are being led by the 
light of creation. When we know this we recognize the 
light of the world. If this is true, and it must be the 
truth if Time says so, the end must come and the design of 
the Great Designer must be carried out, no matter how 
many ages or generations it may take to do it. 

Infinite plans and designs are never changed; if they 
were they would not be infinite. The whole order of 
nature would have to be reversed to change the text, "Be 
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and sub- 
due it." 



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This text harmonizes with man's wants and necessities, 
the laws of nature and creation. Man is now old enough 
and wise enough to examine the text for himself under- 
standing^, to look at it in the light of the truth and com- 
prehend its meaning. When he does this, he sees his 
possibilities and beholds himself in the light of present 
and future development. When he does this, existence 
becomes a state of elevation and an object is presented for 
which and on which to build. 

It has taken and will still take Time to prove the full 
truth of the text ; it has taken and will still take Time for 
man to grow to fully understand and enter into the spirit 
of it; but he is old enough now to see it and shape him- 
self to meet it. 

Subduing the earth, as the fulfillment of a Divine com- 
mand, as the foundation of future development; and 
earthly happiness, as the solution of a great problem, is 
altogether a different proposition from scratching over 
the ground as a servant of someone else to get a few dol- 
lars to put into poor chewing tobacco and bad whisky. 

Subduing the earth, as a foundation on which to build, 
as a regulator of the human family and human affairs, 
to provide an independent home, is altogether a different 
proposition from living on land without any knowledge or 
appreciation of its exalted position and relations. 
In addition to that which has already been said, I wish 



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to go on record as saying that, from this on, replenishing 
and subduing the earth will grow in importance — not be- 
cause it is here asserted, but because natural conditions 
are forcing and demanding it from every direction, and 
will continue to do so until the truth of the text is univer- 
sally recognized and made the "base idea" of the human 
family. 

Evidence supporting this belief is without end. 

The great force back of it is the increase and spread 
of mankind. Monopoly, poverty, division in society, fail- 
ures as well as success in business, all point to replenish- 
ing and subduing the earth as the "base idea," as the chief 
occupation and true foundation of man. 

Those to be supported must live on that which supports 

them. This is self-evident. 

« 

Water or any other fluid finds a level, so will mankind. 
Mankind is not as thin as water, but is a moving sub- 
stance, thin enough to run in every direction and after 
everything, consequently must sooner or later find a level. 
It does not require prophecy or deep penetration to tell 
this. 

Development is the struggles and hardships of birth 
transferred and continued. This is true of worlds, na- 
tions and individuals. 



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MANKIND IS SPOKEN OF AS THE HUMAN 

FAMILY. 

This family is large and lives on land, not in the water. 

By looking at mankind as a family, as a long-lived fam- 
ily, as a large family, as one spreading and growing in 
every direction, with a father and a mother interested in 
i its development both for transitory and eternal purposes, 
it is easy to see how all things must turn to good, to 
properly develop the family and make it see and recognize 
the truth. This work is plainly and openly going on; 
even the variegated colors and notions of the family are 
j working to this end, like boards and timbers of different 
sizes, kinds and lengths, that wiork in in putting up a 
structure. 

Every time labor frightens capital, every time capital 
forms a trust and oppresses labor or shows to thoss out- 
side of a trust that they cannot compete with combined 
opposition, every move of this kind calls attention to the 
growing necessity of going out onto the face of the earth 
and subduing it to maintain independence and manhood. 

Another strong indication in this direction is that there 
is no way by which anarchy can be scientifically and in- 
telligently conducted, it being outside of law and order. 



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JEHOVAH 

does not attempt to build outside of law and order, and 
certainly an anarchist cannot hope to go beyond the 
Great Ruler. As long as the Father of All cannot build 
order upon disorder the anarchist is certainly assuming a 
great deal by trying it. 

But by doing so he serves to develop and bring out the 
truth of the text. This is the only place where he does 
fit or tend in an way towards the slightest good. 

Every time an anarchist opens his mouth or gets out 
his bloody flag he makes someone think about going out 
onto the earth where a living can be had away from the 
hideous thing ; where a man can be a man by contribut- 
ing honest labor and paying honest attention to the de- 
mands and rewards of his mother. By bowing down to 
and kissing the black face of Mother Earth he can live 
and be a happy child while anarchists are destroying 
themselves through disorder. Anything as devoid of 
science and intelligence as anarchy is to be deplored ; but 
the anarchist is doing his full share in an imperfect and 
unintentional way towards establishing the truth of the 
text by driving people out to "replenish the earth and 
subdue it." 

When it comes to establishing Divine law and bring- 
ing about Divine ends, the Supreme Architect works in 
everything from broken bricks to spotless marble ; from 
honest farmers to ranting anarchists. 



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The truth must cover all points and work in all direc- 
tions to prove it is the truth. If a dam was being built 
to hold water, everything that worked in to serve the pur- 
pose would be valuable, no matter whether it was sticks, 
stones, dirt, grass or feathers. 

It is so in bringing the truth of the text to light, the 
Divine command is to "Replenish the earth and subdue 
it." If all forces do not support this decree the text must 
fail. But where all forces do support it, it is the truth, 
and the truth must prevail. 

ALL FORCES SUPPORT IT. 

Man's growth, his wants, his fears, his fortunes and 
misfortunes, his harmony and lack of harmony, his loves, 
his strength and weakness, all drive him in this direction 
and turn to this source. 

God must have a foundation on which to stand to be 
God. 

He must have Eternal Time and Eternal Space in 
which to exist or He is not infinite. If a limit can be 
fixed in which He can be confined, or by which He can 
be measured, then He is a finite, and no longer an Infinite, 
Being. 

If a foundation is necessary for the Supreme Ruler to 
stand upon, how much more so is it for those who are 



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ruled by Him? It would be impossible for the Supreme 
Ruler to make something outside of Himself. While He 
has to stand and exist on law and order it would be impos- 
sible to make man exist outside of it. 



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CHAPTER XXI. 
THE EARTH AS MAN'S FOUNDATION. 

The foundation of anything is that on which it stands: 
man is of the earth and from the earth, consequently the 
earth must be his foundation, and the more perfect he 
makes the foundation, the stronger and more perfect he 
makes himself; the more he elevates his parentage the 
more he is elevated. 

The earth corresponds to Space in creation. Eternal 
Space is God's mother: The Earth is man's. 

Man is the fruit of the union between spirit and matter, 
consequently he partakes of the nature of both parents. 

If the great work of the Supreme Trinity is in making 
matter conscious, then the natural and highest work of 
man is bringing life support and protection out of the 
eaith through labor. This is the first and natural step- 
ping stone to something higher. Through the channel of 
producing that which supports him he is placed in contact 
and made to grow in acquaintance with that out of which 
he is taken. The earth is the kindergarten of existence ; 
the playhouse where man becomes familiar with the ele- 
ments and workings of nature, the inanimate, the animate 



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and the conscious-animate. The earth is the stepping- 
stone and introduction to elements and things to come. 
Man was made in God's image, the same as a baby is 
in the image of man ; a baby possesses the form, nature 
and elements to grow to be a man, but it requires growth 
and development to become such ; the image without the 
development simply means a baby and no man. 

PROGRESSION IS AN IMPERATIVE LAW OF 
CREATION. 

One not progressing is falling behind in the race of ex- 
istence. There is such a thing as unconscious progres- 
sion, and such a thing as unconscious retrogression. 

Time brings out true conditions in this respect, but it 
may take a long, roundabout way to do it. 

Some things are left to man's discretion, some not; 
while he loves life and clings to it, he must support it in 
order to preserve and elevate it ; while this is progression, 
there is a work going on outside of him, as the result of 
his action or nonaction, which is a constant evolution and 
force creating new conditions. This force draws to and 
from him at the same time ; it tends to build him up and 
tear him down at the same time. In so far as man acts 
with intelligence and in harmony with the higher aims of 
natural law, or in so far as he fails, he has a force lifting 
him up or pulling him down. If part act with intelligence 



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and part do not, there are two forces, the stronger of 
which must predominate ; as intelligence is stronger than 
ignorance, an intelligent minority can overcome an ig- 
norant majority in many ways. 

It is not only the business of man to act with intelli- 
gence, but to impart intelligence, not only for the benefit 
of others, but for his own safety, to keep from falling a 
prey to ignorance. 

Everyone who contributes to the increase of life should 
be able to contribute intelligence to direct its growth as 
well as substance to support it. Without this it is easy 
to see where the "base idea" might be lost sight of and 
where there would be many opinions and much confusion. 

"A BASE IDEA" 

must be established for a foundation, for order cannot 
come out of disorder, or certainty out of uncertainty. 
There must be a place to start from and a place to go, to 
maintain and perpetuate any work. Man should know 
what he is living for, what on, where and how he gets it, 
how long it will last, and all about it. To do this he must 
have a foundation, and there must be a base and a foun- 
dation to the foundation, on which he must stand and 
live and from whence all support and all things must be 
taken. This is given to him, and this foundation is 



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THE EARTH, 

the foundation furnished by nature and nature's God, 
back of which man cannot go, and from which he cannot 
depart. 

These times mean that Time is revealing and bringing 
to light natural and true conditions. Father Time is a 
great detective; he pries into and exposes everything. 
No wonder that all tremble and that confidence is shaken 
when he comes around. The remedy is adherence to di- 
vine and natural law, recognizing and bowing down to the 
truth and loving it because it is the truth. 

It is worth all the toil and all the sorrow to know the 
truth. If man can be convinced of and positively recog- 
nize this in these times, he is rich, and his reward is suffi- 
cient for all sacrificed. 

When he knows the truth he knows which way to go 
and what to do; the truth tells and shows him. When 
the truth shows him which way to go he has a road with- 
out end ; one on which to travel where every step brings 
new beauties and new light. The truth comes to some as 
a hardship, but when once in harmony with it they bow 
down and call it blessed. 

Let us suppose the truth was recognized and being 
truthfully and honestly carried out ; that the "base idea" 
was in full force and operation, and Divine and natural 



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law prevailed in reference to "replenishing and subduing 
the earth." Conditions would be just as much in advance 
of anything ever known on earth as the sun is greater 
and higher than a street lamp. 

Let us suppose the "base idea" was to "replenish the 
earth and subdue it," to make and possess beautiful and 
happy homes ; let us suppose the unemployed, instead of 
hanging around dingy streets, dirty alleys and low places 
in cities, were building up independent homes on land, 
breathing pure air, cultivating manhood and womanhood, 
and were self-supporting and self-respecting; the coun- 
try would be a flower garden filled with music, intelli- 
gence, refinement and virtue. 

Let us suppose the existence of a state whereby great 
numbers from all classes were obliged to go into the 
country and live on the soil instead of hanging around 
cities trying to live off each other through uncertain spec- 
ulation and poor wits: would such a condition be a mis- 
fortune? No, emphatically no. It would be a blessing 
to the country and humanity. That condition is appar- 
ent now. 

Those who had to go might not think so at the time, 
but after finding how much better they could live from 
honest efforts, free from endless annoyances and uncer- 
tainties, they would thank the misfortunes that drove 
them on the land. Hardships and hard times are neces- 



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sary to development. Debt drives people from place to 
place ; not being able to pay forces them into new places 
and new conditions ; stoppage of growth in one place or 
way starts it in another. 

When a man fails in business he should not be dis- 
couraged ; he should comfort himself with the thought 
that he is wanted and can be more useful somewhere 
else. A failure in one place should be taken as notice of 
being on the wrong track, and a change should be made 
cheerfully. 

It is hard to console poverty ; it is hard to praise misfor- 
tune, but the world is full of both to be met and com- 
forted ; there is a cause for these conditions or they would 
not exist; as long as they do exist they must be con- 
tended against in the best possible way. 

Poverty and misfortune make people think; they test 
character and show of what one is made. Where they 
cannot be overcome and held down they serve to make 
weary souls more satisfied with death. If everyone en- 
joyed good health, lived in luxury and had all that heart 
could desire, death would be a terrible and awful thing 
to approach; but after being storm-bound and tempest- 
tossed for years on the wings of life, one is more willing 
to let go. Sickness reconciles the sufferer to the end to 
be met; pain, poverty and misfortune take away the 
terror. 

When a poor unfortunate comes to die, if without any 



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strong belief in future happiness, he cannot be robbed of 
the comfort that he is not leaving any very good thing 
behind ; and with this consolation he drops off with com- 
fort drawn from misery and misfortune. Hope cannot 
be robbed entirely when misfortune brightens the star. 

Conditions that drive people onto land are not mis- 
fortunes. 

There is a great problem to settle and only the light of 
the truth can settle it. 

How can man grow and progress and keep on a 
straight road of progression? Growing is one thing, 
progression another. 

Growth can be Ipp-sided and crooked; the body can 
grow large while the head grows small; growth and 
progression must be together to reach perfection. 

A general plan of employment must accompany growth 
of population to insure proper development and prog- 
ress. A comparative few can manufacture for the many; 
a comparative few could produce for the many, but com- 
petition prevents this from being the case and enables all 
desiring work to find a way of support by earnestly look- 
ing for it on the earth. 

It is true, a large class of consumers hold an uncertain 
place between land and water, without a sure footing any- 
where or a sure hold on anything. But by following the 
text and looking for support, from whence support ema- 



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nates, they can go to the earth, and by so doing find they 
are helping build up paradise. 

The condition that unjoints society is, everyone is a 
consumer, but everyone is not a producer; every con- 
sumer must live off labor, but every consumer is not will- 
ing to labor, and does not. In so far as the consumer fails 
to make adequate returns for that which he consumes, 
he is a burden and hindrance to society ; everything con- 
sumed, not paid for, represents loss to the one who fur- 
nishes it. 

No man is obliged to hire another unless he has some- 
thing for him to do with a profit in it ; if there is not a 
profit in it, then it is charity. 

The laborer who is able to work for someone else 
should be able to work for himself ; if he is sufficiently in- 
telligent to point out the faults of the capitalist, he should 
command credit and ability to handle capital on his own 
account. The real facts are, there are too many able to 
consume more than they produce ; in the language of 
trade, they are "long" on consumption and "short" on 
production. This is a serious fix in which to be, without 
plenty of horse sense, backbone and faith in the earth and 
the future. 

There is a great deal of manhood in man when put to 
the test ; the majority stand ready to go in any direction 
in which an opportunity offers to gain support; but in 



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emergencies opportunities are usually scarce and fail to 
come when most desired and needed. 

When opportunities quit offering in attractive cities, 
there is but one place left to go for support, if not con- 
solation, and that is to 

MOTHER EARTH. 

This is always ready and waiting to respond to labor. 
Mother earth is ever willing to take man to her bosom 
and caress and feed him for his services in return. But 
she says, "My child, you know my nature and my terms ; 
i you must get a hold and clean the weeds off of my face, 
and for this the harvest shall be yours in return." 

The fruit of the union between the earth and labor is 
man's support. 

Creation is not without a plan ; neither is labor with- 
out an object. Without wants, man would not have any- 
thing to lead or drive him to investigation. 

Without investigation he would not know about things 
around him ; without this he would not be a man. With- 
out a knowledge of the grand plan of existence he would 
be a worthless being ; without future hope life would be a 
burden instead of a blessing. 

Man must be in harmony with the conditions of life in 
; order to enjoy life. One of the conditions of life is that 
the inanimate must support the animate, and by so doing 
develop the conscious-animate. 



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The inanimate and the animate are brought together 
through labor, the animate and the conscious-animate 
through knowledge. With man, the chain of life pulls 
downward to the earth and upward to the sky. Every 
time he touches the inanimate earth, and it responds to 
his animate touch, he is made conscious of life rising 
from the dust. This is nature developing nature ; crea- 
tion responding to the Creator. That a tramp should be 
obliged to stop tramping and settle down to work and 
support himself and beautify the earth is not misfortune ; 
it is a blessing forced upon him. 

Times that force people to work are called "hard times" 
— this is a misnomer ; it is lack of appreciation of oppor- 
tunity. People who are sick and cannot work are entitled 
to sympathy; those who can, are not ; anyone able to work 
and help themselves should embrace the opportunity to 
show their good sense and sound character by taking hold 
willingly and cheerfully. 

Labor is a law of nature, instituted by the Author of 
man ; knowing how to work intelligently is a sufficient 
foundation for a fortune. 

True character and greatness consist in overcoming 
obstacles and rising above difficulties ; those who have not 
done this are never heard of as distinguished or great. 
The character of a great man consist in what he has over- 
come ; in what he has raised up and torn down for the 






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benefit of mankind. He cannot sit still and become great 
— only as a nonentity. 

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWL- 
EDGE AND WISDOM. 

Knowledge knows the truth ; wisdom is guided by it. 

Thousands know the truth who are not wise enough to 
be guided by it. Wisdom consists in doing the right 
thing at the right time, in the right way. There is a dif- 
ference between knowing and doing. 

Everyone knows something about the earth; even 
dumb brutes look to it and go to it for support. This 
knowledge, born in them, is called instinct, but it is Di- 
vine wisdom in an unspeaking form. 

To those living on the earth the most important thing 
to know is the use and true nature of that on which 
they live. The earth and man were made together and 
belong together. It is the source of his support, wealth 
and happiness ; therefore it is important that they should 
be acquainted. 



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CHAPTER XXII. 
THE EARTH AS A GUIDE AND TEXT BOOK. 

The earth is not only the foundation on which man 
stands, but is a guide and text book for him in all things ; 
it not only shows what man* has done, what he is doing, 
but what he must do ; subduing the earth opens every 
field of thought from the Creator to the common laborer. 
And while first in importance, it is least sought, and least 
understood, by too many. 

The cause of present trouble, with everybody and every- 
thing, is lack of true knowledge of the earth. 

The remedy needed to straighten and bring things 
right is an understanding of the relation between man 
and that on which he lives. Man is influenced by the 
earth to an extent of which he is little aware. It is one of 
the foundation stones of nature ; the basis of government 
and religion ; the source from which want is supplied. 

It is through the earth that it is now shown that some- 
thing is wrong with man. If not, he would not be out of 
joint and so terribly mixed up as at present. 



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WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH HIM? 

He is not going according to directions ; he is not pay- 
ing sufficient attention to first principles and the consti- 
tution of the Universe. We are approaching conditions 
jby which this is to be made clear. 

I wish to go on record as seeing and reading this from 
.The Earth and the book of Creation. 

The One who gave life knew why He gave it, and fore- 
saw the effects and results of its increase and spread, and 
made all necessary provisions for this end. Man has not 
'hid or buried anything in the earth that he is digging to 
get out; everything was put there in advance for his 
benefit and advancement, to dig for, to discover higher 
ends and designs. 

As life grows and is a part of nature, it is very natural 
for the part needing support to look to the part support- 
ing it. 

As the trinity of nature is one and inseparable, it is 
very natural for the animate to look into the inanimate, 
and after so doing become conscious of existing re- 
lations. 

As life is a growth, as it has parentage, as it has a 
Designer, the design of its Author must be the correct 
one to follow in reference to its development. 

It is certainly the correct one as long as it harmonizes 
with all other parts of nature and all other Trinities. 



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If all the mathematicians should calculate, and all the 
philosophers should philosophise, as to what man should 
do to gain future glory and happiness, what would they 
tell him to do? 

Make money? Live in debauchery? Or what? 

If they could see through ages like seconds and di- 
vine all things ; if they had control of life and death, they 
would say: "Let man be in harmony with Time and 
Space/' They would say: "To be in harmony with 
Time, he must have a knowledge of Time ; to have knowl- 
edge of Time, he must live through Time to get this 
knowledge." 

They would say: "Let Time without end be made 
glorious with his life, and life in all forms enjoy it." This 
is what they would say: "Let the dust turn to life in 
every form to enjoy life as it now does." 

They would say: "Let hope of the future and memory 
of the past be blended for music, and as the hand of life 
touches the chords of Time, let it awaken everything to 
harmony and rejoicing." This is what they would say, 
this is what it is now. Time is revealing to man that 
which only Time can reveal. 

Time is revealing that life is a universal and continuous 
growth ; that it is a growth which must eventually settle 
itself in harmony with itself and universal conditions. 

Life begets life, and it is going to take life to regulate 
life, and plenty of it. 



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By looking into the conditions of life, the millennium is 
a matter of almost mathematical calculation. It is only 
a matter of Time when contentions in life must wear 
themselves out ; when life must find a common level and 
settle down in harmony with itself. This is read through 
the earth and through the growth and spread of life. 

As life grows and spreads, not only individuals but na- 
tions are coming together on a common level. This is 
natural law. 

Life, in Time, will cover the earth like an unbroken 
vine. There is more commerce now between nations 
than between the states of the union a short time ago. No 
more is thought of going to Europe than to an adjoining 
county. 

No more is thought of meeting people of all classes 
from foreign lands, looking for land and making homes 
in this country and putting a voice in the government, 
than finding ourselves here doing it. 

Life is growing and spreading, apparently unnoticed. 
That it has an effect upon the earth and all forms of 
life is without question. 

These times mean that the stream of life is rising and 
spreading ; they mean that the world is flowing together 
and getting whiskers. 

These times mean that the world is becoming conscious 
of a changed condition through growth; that it is ap- 



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proaching a condition of manhood and womanhood, and 
must govern itself accordingly. 

When I see a dog sucking eggs I cannot make myself 
believe that the brute is raising chickens — only to get the 
eggs out of the nest. 

When I hear some people talking politics and see them 
forming organizations to make times better, I feel as 
though I should be criminally negligent, by failing to tell 
how it looks from a natural law standpoint. 

If I saw a man standing without a boat on the edge 

of a lake, too deep and wide to swim over, contemplat- 
ing how he would cross ; and he concluded the way to get 
over was to drink the lake dry and walk over on land, 
and when over spit the water out and let it form the lake 
again, I feel as though I should be criminally negligent 
if I fail to tell him he would drown himself when he came 
to expectorate freely — that he would find himself right in 
the middle of the lake, the place he was trying to avoid. 
When I hear men complaining of employers, telling 
how mean they are, and strike to get rid of grievances, 
then turn around and strike the one who is willing to take 
that of which they complain and refuse to accept ; when I 
see the position of one pursuing this course, I feel as 
though I should be neglecting an important duty if I 
failed to tell just where he stands in relation to natural 
law. 



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This publication is absolutely without malice or preju- 
dice against anyone. 

I never went on a strike, never struck anyone to hurt 
them, and was never hurt by being struck — outside of a 
few gentle corrections, inflicted when a boy, by those in 
authority, who claimed it was for my benefit. 

Every honest laborer is entitled to profound respect, re- 

| gardless of nationality, color, occupation or wages. Be- 

I 

■ ing born as naked as any baby who ever came into the 

i world, I believe I know what I am talking about, and 
i can be legitimately classed among laboring classes. In 
l expressing opinions on the subject, I do it through edu- 
cation received from experience rather than in a school- 
liouse. My schooling consisted in being allowed to ob- 
I serve everyday events as they passed by — if too much 
; time was not taken from work to observe them. In ad- 
dition to this opportunity to observe, I have received 
' knocks in business hard enough to knock a baseball clear 
1 over an unorganized county, so I feel as though I can 
j justly claim the honor and distinction of belonging to the 
] laboring classes, and have labored hard to find out the 
j best way to get along. 

Being obliged to work is not my trouble; that I may 
. get so I cannot work makes me feel very serious — some- 
j times really sad. 

My disposition is not to oppress labor ; it is all kindness. 



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If I could have my way I would feed every laboring man 
on roast lamb and tame honey. I would have a large 
white napkin under his chin to wipe the brown gravy off 
of his whiskers and save his shirt bosom. I would have 
a ruffled pillow case for him to lay his weary head on 
when he lay down at night after a hard day's toil. My 
will is good and my sympathy and respect are good as far 
as anyone is able to use them. But if they would furnish 
any real support I would live on them myself. 

The question is not what we would like to do, it is what 
we can and must do. 

Man did not make the world — he did not even make 
himself — but he is placed in the responsible position of 
being obliged to take care of himself. 

Now, what is the best way to do it? 

We say he must work. There is great complaint in 
the field of labor: what is the matter, and how is it to be 
remedied? 

I am in the same fix as all others, and only one of one 
billion seven hundred millions in the wide round 
world who have to make a living against competition. 
The question of a living is equally important to all, for -all 
are looking for and must have it. 

What shall I do? Try to put everyone out of my 
way or make up my mind there is room enough for all 
now on earth and all to come? 



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I am glad there is not one in existence obliged to fur- 
nish me employment ; if there was it might spoil me from 
being independent and trying to be self-supporting. 

After looking around and thinking, as far as competent, 
I think after thinking, that I have made a very valuable 
discovery in reference to independence and self-support. 
I have discovered that a man can be very happy and in- 
dependent and highly respectable living on land. 

Eighteen years' residence on a prairie farm in the Red 
River Valley not only convinces but proves this to me. 

LIKE MANY OTHERS, I LIKE CREAM. 

It is a pleasure to say that I can milk a cow to get this, 
and am not ashamed to do it. 

Then there is veal: who is not fond of that? It is easy 
to get this by feeding a calf. 

It is true, everyone does not like to feed a calf ; neither 
does he enjoy its society. The calf is born with the idea 
of a chronic politician. It is born with the idea that it 
should have a teat in its mouth or three or four of them 
at the same time, and that it should never let go of any of 
them for the benefit of anyone else. 

And when you undertake to remove this idea and re- 
form it from a selfish style of thinking, it is apt to, and 
frequently does, slobber all over you. 

This is not considered by some as the most agreeable 






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work on a farm. This is especially true where you only 
have one suit of clothes to wear week days and to church 
on Sunday, when the minister gets there. .But it is neces- 
sary to be done for your benefit as well as that of the 
thoughtless and selfish calf. 

The calf can be forgiven for its calfish ways, when a calf, 
for in after years it walks into the slaughter house a large, 
fat, fine animal and lays down its life for what you have 
done for it. 

It is full of juicy meat and tallow, and gives you a fine 
hide to make into an overcoat, or make up into shoes or 
a leather bed quilt — all because you fed it and treated it 
well when young and tender. 

A man could not show a greater appreciation or make a 
greater return for kindness than this. 

I am glad to say that I like calves and can feed them 
cheerfully when I think how kind and appreciative they 
are. It is not everyone who enjoys weaning a calf and 
teaching it to drink, because 'the calf raises so many 
serious objections to giving up the born idea. When you 
put into its mouth your finger, that has a horny nail on 
the end of it, with no hole in the middle for the milk to 
flow through, it rolls up its eyes and looks disgusted at 
your efforts as a stepmother and gives you a milk punch, 
or a milk shake, that comes nearer being a milk bath than 
anything else. But this only occurs a few times^ a year 



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and under peculiar circumstances ; when you are try- 
ing to take the nature of a politician away from it. 

THEN THERE ARE FRESH EGGS ON A FARM. 

Think how nice these are and the many delicious things 
they make. Perhaps it is sinful in me, but I actually feel 
proud and haughty to think I have hens that lay eggs. 
This industry of the hen makes me feel independent ; and 
I am not ashamed to feed her, because she seems so 
honest in her work and tries to do so much to help me 
along. 

Some people prefer to go to a grocery store to get 
their eggs ; but it is much pleasanter to deal directly with 
the hen and leave all "middle" men out. There iz an 
honesty about the hen that is reliable. She never cackles 
over an egg that is a year old. If she makes a fuss over 
anything it is something fresh. 

The rooster is different from the hen. Still, he is a 
bearable bird. It is true, he scratches in the garden 
some and makes considerable noise crowing around ; but 
after all, he possesses nobility of character. He is very 
fond of the hen's society and a great fighter. I have 
seen a rooster leave a half bushel of shelled corn and 
run ten rods to whip another rooster when he was not 
doing a thing. 

It is not everyone who likes to feed swine on a farm, 



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or anywhere else. But is very profitable, if not so pleas- 
ant. It is just as agreeable to wait on one with four legs 
as with less. 

The hog is a peculiar animal. It has some ways about 
it that you cannot admire. It tries to run over all the 
other hogs and get all there is ; but this its nature, and 
in the end you get the benefit of all its peculiarities. It 
returns you nice hams, spare ribs, lard, head cheese, saus- 
ages and souse, for the trouble of waiting on it. The 
hog is next to the calf in point of appreciation ; and my 
pride rises when I think I can feed this animal, and in 
return it pays me a good price for waiting on it. It is 
not so much the society of the hog that I take pride in 
as its value when dead. 

Then there is the horse on the farm. Is not that a 
noble animal? 

It carries and draws you around, does your work and 
is an agreeable companion. It is easy to saddle or har- 
ness a horse or make up a nice straw bed for it. I feel 
quite elevated to be able to do this. It is just as honor- 
able to wait on a horse as to do some other things around 
a boarding house. 

But it will not do to bra^g too much about accomplish- 
ments and comforts; it might look as though I had, or 
was getting, the "big head* from being on a farm, to 
boast so much of ability to feed calves and do so many 



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useful things. It does not cause any blush, however, to 
acknowledge that I can and am willing to do it rathe* 
than go hungry. It is not only believed in but consid- 
ered a great privilege and duty to be able to get a living 
from the earth. 

The one who does not look at it in this light ought 
to have something better to do or not find fault with this. 

Then there are nice vegetables and fruits. Think of 
i these. 

It is not hard to pull weeds and hoe when you know 

that in the fall you will have a cellar full of potatoes, 

i 
beets, onions, carrots, turnips, squash and cabbage heads 

to pay for your labor ; when you know that you will have 
a year's living ahead, and cold winter days will not worry 
you about something to eat. Every individual, no mat- 
ter how poor, likes good things to eat. The man who 
has a good appetite never refuses good things, and if 
he has willing hands and is able to work, he can always 
be sure of something to live on by working on The Earth. 
The man who has labor to sell is no different from 
anyone else who has a commodity for sale ; and labor is 
only worth what it will bring on the market, or what other 
laborers will furnish the same commodity for. This is a 
natural law of trade, and so far it has puzzled the wisest 
strikers and thinkers to find a way to get over or around 
it without discord. 



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I am not familiar with labor troubles or the way to 
settle them. But I am in sympathy with the laboring 
man, because I am obliged to labor to live. My views 
and opinions on a strike are not offered or expressed 
on account of their value, for my observations have not 
gone any farther than to observe the difficulties of strikes 
and the way in which they usually end. 

The striker's intention is undoubtedly good, but the 
result of his action is not always satisfactory to himself 
or anyone else. . If he could gain that which he desires by 
striking he would be a great success in his line of re- 
form; but my observations of his endeavors to get out of 
a 'hole" have only been particularly recorded so far as 
it agrees with the text which is being advocated. When 
it gets beyond this, I am entirely at sea and wish to be left 
out. 

THE STRIKER IS A USEFUL PERSON. 

Not so particularly for himself as for the world at 
large. His value does not consist so much in extra stores 
carried home for the support of his wife and children as 
in bringing the extreme elements of society together, and 
in illustrating a great truth. He is a living picture of the 
increase and spread of life ; he brings out this feature of 
development to perfection, but very often at a sacrifice to 
his own dinner pail. 



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When a striker strikes he has to have something to 
strike for and at ; he usually strikes, as he supposes, at 
a millionaire ahead of him. The minute he dees this, 
the millionaire is naturally not pleased with his action and 
looks around for some other gentleman more kindly dis- 
posed to take his place. When he finds one more docile 
and willing to do this without irritating him by asking 
for higher wages, the gentleman who has struck calls 
the gentleman willing to take his place a "scab," and not 
infrequently deals the "scab" a blow that makes him see 
stars; and there are cases on record where he has re- 
moved him from the earth entirely for offering to take 
that which he refused. 

To see the exact use of the striker and appreciate his 
usefulness to the world, the whole situation must be tak- 
en together. Here is the difficult feature of a strike. 

As soon as a striker strikes he is between two fires, 
both of which are quite warm. He has the millionaire 
in front of him and the so-called "scab" behind him. 
These two extremes are trying to get together because 
the original striker has aroused both by attempting to 
keep them apart. Only for the striker striking, the mil- 
lionaire and "scab" might never seek each other's society, 
but through the action of the striker they clamor to know 
each other and become friends ; and when once acquaint- 
ed, they talk over business and enter into business, while 



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the State Militia or United States Army stands over them 
to enable them to unite their interests. 

If the striker did not strike, the "scab" and million- 
aire might never have gotten together. The "scab" 
might have starved to death but for the striker intro- 
ducing him to his rich employer. Through the action of 
the striker, the millionaire and "scab" are brought to- 
gether. In this way the striker serves as a self-constituted 
committee of introduction, to give another man his place. 
Human nature is a very queer thing. When once ac- 
quainted, they often form strong attachments, and the 
"scab" and millionaire become inseparable friends. 

The striker has a double load on his shoulders. He 
has not only capital to put down, but all the unorganized 
and unemployed labor besides. He has an army in from 
of him and one behind him to conquer ; he has to whip 
all of the extremely rich and all of the extremely poor 
at the same time. This is certainly a hard position to put 
the best fighter on earth in and expect him to succeed. 

A striker is like a man elected to office who assumes 
to be larger than his party after election. When a man 
elected to office crows over the party he has defeated, 
then turns around and undertakes to reform the party 
that has elected him, he is seldom returned the second 
time to play the same trick. 
When it comes to reading the future and presenting 



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the signs of the times, the truth is not concealed or turned 
down, no matter where or who it strikes. 

The striker is useful in calling attention to the inde- 
pendence of the man living on land, out of debt, getting 
his living from the earth by doing his own work ; to the 
one who can go to bed and get up when he pleases, and be 
his own master and own servant. 

If all men were intelligent and honest and of one mind, 
a strike could be made successful. When this is the case, 
the majority of mankind will find themselves on little 
farms doing their own work. When they get to this state 
of perfection, they can starve capital into submission, in- 
stead of themselves. The only class who can maintain a 
strike successfully will be the independent landowners; 
those who can live on the earth while bringing the re- 
bellious capitalist to time. 

Every laboring man should have about ten acres of 
good land somewhere in the Great Northwest, with a 
good root cellar on it that will not freeze ; then he would 
be in shape to hold an argument against the money pow- 
ers, provided he kept a mortgage off of his land. 

When all conditions are considered and the truth 
looked squarely in the face, it is as solemn and impressive 
as looking into another world. 

It is so solemn and important that, for one, I do not 
propose to depart one inch from natural law, not even 



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to contend with anyone about furnishing me employ- 
ment or compensation for it. Nature has wisely pro- 
vided a way for me and all others to live. By examining 
the title to my claims in creation, I find I am in partner- 
ship with the Great Creator Himself. He furnishes the 
seed and soil, and all I have to do is to furnish the work 
and take all the crop for pay. By doing this I find I 
can live like a king; and in the absence of everything 
else, the elements make pretty good society. 

I now wish to go on record as fully endorsing Moses 
as to the course and work of man on earth. I wish to go 
on record as seeing him with new tables of stone on which 
is inscribed revealed truth ; truth revealed by the light of 
Time. When Time reveals the truth, it becomes a fixed 
part of creation. When man sees and cpmprehends the 
truth, he becomes the intelligent or developed part of 
creation. 

When Time fully reveals to all that the way to "do- 
minion" is to "replenish the earth and subdue it," then 
human beings can multiply, and all forces of nature wnl 
drive them in the direction of the highest development ; 
because then, through the truth, they will know the ob- 
ject and use of all forces. The dawn of this era is now 
approaching, and that which was clear to Moses in the 
beginning will be clear to all in time to come. 

When man is in the dark and without any knowledge 



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save the light of the past, he should follow the knowledge 
gained from that until he can get a better and clearer 
light of his Own. 



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CHAPTER XXIII. 

WHEN ALL ON EARTH WILL BE HAPPY. 

All on earth will be happy when the Bible is recognized 
as a Book of Science. 

"Whatsoever man soweth, that shall he reap." 

Here is natural law, plain enough for a child to under- 
stand. 

"For they have sown unto the wind, and they shall 
reap the whirlwind." 

It is impossible to touch anything without exploding 
a large piece of natural law. 

FAITH IS A SCIENCE PURE AND SIMPLE. 

Faith is a belief that something exists or will exist. 

The science of faith is, the minute any particular thing 
is believed you are under the influence of that in which 
you believe, or in a state you would not be in without 
faith. 

Without faith you would avoid the influence by pass- 
ing around it. Faith draws you towards and under an 
influence ; want of it turns you from it. 

If a man had faith in a business enterprise, he might 



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put in both money and labor; if not, he would not put 
in either. 

It is easy to see that faith is one of the oldest and 
simplest of sciences. 

If a man had faith in a woman he might love and 
marry her; if not, he might hate and shoot her — either 
before or after marriage. 

THIS IS NATURAL LAW. 

One who drinks whisky is under the influence of 
whisky. One who believes in Heaven is under a differ- 
ent influence from one who does not. One acts accord- 
ing to belief — unless he is a hypocrite. 

Where is Heaven? It is wherever harmony exists 
with the Supreme Ruler. 

Where is Hell? It is all the territory outside of 
Heaven. It is a condition, not a place; it is the state of 
the imperfect. 

How can one get around or out of it? By becoming 
perfect. If Hell is a place inhabited by the imperfect, 
and embraces all the territory outside of Heaven, there 
must be some of it here 

ON EARTH. 

We will not look farther. This is not the subject we 
started out to introduce or discuss. 



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When faith is treated as a science all mankind will 
be religious ; for through natural law they will see and 
fell their relation to a Supreme Being. 

Religion is the relation of man to his Maker. 

When religion is treated as a science, the question 
will not be, "Are you a Presbyterian, a Methodist, or a 
Roman Catholic?" It will be, "What is your relation to 
Father Time?" 

The determination of this will be decided by natural 
law. 

When a doctor enters the sick-room he feels the pulse, 
takes the temperature, looks to see what part is out of 
harmony with nature, and what caused the disorder. 

He looks at the tongue to see the effect of what the 
patient has been eating ; he then works to restore health 
by applying remedies to restore natural conditions. 

When a man is religiously out of order he will be ex- 
amined and treated by a 

SCIENTIFIC PREACHER 

something as follows : 

Instead of asking the patient what he has been eating 
the first question will be, "What have you been think- 
ing about?" 

Then the tongue will be examined to see what he has 
been talking about. 



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After this he will be asked what his belief is in refer- 
ence to the future. What he knows about the nature and 
operations of Time/ As to belief in the future, having an 
immediate and strong effect upon the present ; and how, 
through this means everyone can enter instantaneously 
into a state of happiness or torment. 

When one suffering from imperfect relations with crea- 
tion answers these questions, the Scientific Preacher will 
understand his disorder and go at him something like 
this: 

If the patient says he is without clear ideas as to the 
future, that he does not understand the Science of Faith 
or how to enter into relation with the Supreme Being, he 
will be treated for this deficiency in his life. He will be 
pronounced deficient in scientific knowledge in reference 
to faith and sent to a 

TIME AND SPACE HOSPITAL. 

And in the hands of a Scientific Preacher he will be 

langed from a blind spiritual dwarf to a giant of light. 

The Scientific Preacher will say, "Your trouble is not 
lack of appetite or sleep, it is a chronic lack of knowledge, 
a widespread trouble from which millions are suffering. 
You are not altogether to blame for this condition, it is 
inherited from your ancestors." 

Then the Scientific Preacher will work to remove his 



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blindness in reference to the future by teaching faith as 
a science, and in this way will make him see great and 
wonderful things ahead, and feel thereat present. 

Religion being the relation of man to his Maker, the 
only question concerning man is whether the relation is a 
perfect or an imperfect one. 

The fact that a relation exists is beyond dispute. The 
nature of the relation is the all-important question, 
whether one of harmony or otherwise. 

The perfect relation is called 

HEAVEN. 

Heaven is a harvest from the seed of purity, charity and 
love. 

The imperfect relation is called Hell, a harvest from 
bad seed. 

The way to reach Heaven is by sowing seed recom- 
mended by the Supreme Ruler. 

To reach perfection all applications for supplies and 
assistance must be addressed to 

"THE AUTHOR OF LIFE." 

The One who grants leases to life puts in the lease 
what must be done to reach perfection. 

The Great Giver lays down the law and it is 



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NATURAL LAW. 

When religion is treated as a science, sunshine and 
happiness will not only exist but be made to grow every- 
where like flowers. And they will not be artificial flow- 
ers either ; they will be those loading the air and filling 
the heart with fragrance. 

Happiness is fragrance from the blossoms of intelli- 
gence. 

The avenues leading to intelligence are through science 
and the parents of science. 

God is the Father and want, planted in man by God, is 
the mother science. 

Ways discovered by man, and to be discovered, to meet 
his wants are properly called science. 

Man's natural wants are numerous and varied. 

The desire for food is a natural want, and must be met 
or the lease to life is cancelled through failure to comply 
with its terms. 

Clothing, shelter, protection and assistance in different 
ways are necessary, according to conditions in the lease. 

Life creates a desire and appetite for more life, the 
same as strong drink creates a desire and appetite for 
more strong drink. 

The wants of life start a search for the foundation and 
support of life. One of the peculiar features of want is, 
it is never satisfied until it knows and has everything. 



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The growth and spread of life keeps up the growth and 
spread of the search for its foundation. The more life 
grows and spreads, the greater the weight on the founda- 
tion and the greater the importance of looking after it. 

In teaching religion, as a science, let us put faith under 
the microscope. 

The death of man suggested, and still suggests, the 
Hereafter. 

But for death, the thought and study of life to come or 

a future state would never have been thought of, for there 

would not be anything calling for its study. 

When death separated friends and family, when the liv- 
ing saw loving forms fall into the earth like fruit from a 

tree, man was introduced to the most serious change and 

feature in existence. 

When others went never to return, tears flowed down 

his cheeks, grief filled his heart, his bosom heaved with 

sorrow. And in time, covered by frosts of hoary age, 

like the snows of winter, younger generations laid him 

back in the earth from whence he came. 

GRANDFATHER IS GONE. 

His place is vacant ; he is greatly missed ; others sleep 
by his cold form. For years before he went he mourned 
for those gone before ; he told how they were missed and 
how he longed to see them. 



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Time goes on, and a precious one is snatched from 
the arms of a loving mother. With grief inexpressible, 
this jewel taken from her tender care is handed over to 
the cold, unfeeling embrace of Mother Earth. 

Infinite power cannot wipe out the fact that the press 
of its tiny hand and pure kiss have been felt ; that its lov- 
ing arms have entwined the neck, its laugh filled the 
house with gladness, and its voice driven away care. 

But that wdiich was fond remembrance is now only 
memory of the past. 

Gone but not forgotten ; absent but ever near. 

By day and by night, a sorrowing mother thinks of it ; 
it fills her heart, it is in her thoughts, and her thoughts 
are with it. 

In hours of darkness, when all is silent, her pillow is 
wet with tears ; she thinks of it in the cold earth, she won- 
ders where it is, and if anyone is making it happy. 

Days, weeks, months, come and go ; but it is no less 
a part of herself. She lives a double life; she is here and 
not here; her thoughts are now a part of her existence, 
and she lives and mingles with them far away. 

Spring time comes ; wild flowers bloom by the little 
grave ; wild birds sing over it ; the earth presents evidence 
everywhere of life after death ; dead grass is covered by 
green; the forest is in full leaf; the orchard is in full 
bloom ; fragrance from the apple blossom and wild plum 



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fill the air ; sunshine sparkles everywhere, and song birds 
add expression of joy to life. 

After a day of sunshine, fragrance and music of birds, 
she sleeps and dreams. 

She dreams her dear one comes to her ; that it touches 
her. She feels its little hand as of yore in her bosom; 
its silken hair is against her cheek; she hears its heart 
beat as though it had run to meet her ; it kisses, and tells 
her it loves her. 

Her dream is so vivid and real, she is awakened by it 
as though embraced by one living. 

It is the lonesome hour of midnight, and she awakes 
startled and frightened. 

She says to herself, "What a dream; it seemed natural 
and real enough to be true — but it is only a cruel dream." 

It mak 3S a deep impression on her ; one that is never 
forgotten. 

She tells it to friends in the morning and thinks of it 
through the day. 

It is only a dream, but some way she feels better after it. 

IT IS A LOVELY DAY. 

The air is balmy; the blossoms smell sweeter than 
ever ; the birds seem more inspired than the day before. 
Her heart is lighter, her spirits more cheerful; she knows 
not why. 



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SHE IS FILLED WITH HER DREAM. 

It was so real she actually feels as though her dear one 
had been seen and felt. Everything about it is bright 
and beautiful; surrounded by music and flowers; it is 
happy. 

This picture is so pleasing, she never turns from it; 
nature and love stamp it on her heart to stay, and it be- 
comes the light of her life. 

That her dear one has lived cannot be denied ; that it 
is gone is equally true ; that it was, and is, a part of herself 
is a fact. 

That it now occupies a place in her life that is sacred, 
one hallowed in memory, is beyond dispute. 

She sees and remembers it in all its loving innocence. 
It is without a stain or fault before her eyes. It would be 
impossible to be otherwise, because it was spotless and 
pure. It would be impossible not to think of it as happy, 
for it was happy. 

It would be impossible not to picture around it beauti- 
ful things, because it was beautiful ; and as she thinks of 
it, all around is beautiful. 

Yes, it was all a dream ; but it made a deep and lasting 
impression, one to be related and impressed on others. 
Years come and go ; it is still before her. 
Some way the world has changed and looks differently 
to her ; she feels that she is going to meet someone. 



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This is natural, because someone she loves, one most 
tender and dear, is gone from her ; and she wants to go 
and see it. 

For the benefit of those suffering from lack of faith, 
for those afflicted with future blindness, for those crippled 
by doubt, let us look at this mother in the light of science. 

Let her be placed on the dissecting table, for the benefit 
of knowledge to mankind ; not veiled in black and shut 
up as a creature of mourning. 

After dissection, a Scientific Preacher would report, 
"the life of the mother is different from any other and 
teaches that which only the mother can." 

The female represents Space in the Godhead; conse- 
quently, conditions in Space can be measured and deter- 
mined through her better than any other medium. 

The true mother is a true lover. When those she loves 
are taken from her, she does not have to be told she has 
lost something; she knows it, whether she be Savage or 
Christian Queen. 

By dissecting the nature of the heart it is found that 
want creates desire ; desire creates love ; love creates 
hope ; hope continued, creates faith. 

Here is a natural and perfect chain, starting from the 
mother's heart, connecting Heaven with earth. 

Man was made with want in his heart ; it is not some- 
thing cultivated; it is something born in him. 



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Want was created to be satisfied ; food is as necessary 
to satisfy the cravings of the heart as those of the stom- 
ach. The only thing that will satisfy a mother's heart 
when separated from those she loves, is being united 
with them. 

A mother's love is very beautiful. Being beautiful in 
nature, it naturally pictures beautiful things. 

The mother's heart is the foundation of Heaven. 

The female being the representation of Space in the 
Godhead, the mother's heart is a lodestone or magnet, 
pointing to those in Space, separated from her by death. 

Being full of love, and those she loves being beautiful 
to her, Heaven is painted from this love in her nature 
for those to dwell in whom she loves. 

The mother did not understand this at the time, but 
does now ; her dream w r as the 

BIRTH OF HOPE, 

brought forth through tears and undying love. It was 
Time uniting life to form a continuous and unbroken 
chain to correspond with itself. It was the consumma- 
tion of a union between Heaven and Mother Earth ; it 
was hope crystallizing into faith under the force and 
operation of natural conditions in the mother's heart. 
It was her life spreading out over a broader and more 
beautiful field ; it was the bright future bowing down to 



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kiss the present, and lead it through doubt and darkness 
to a better land. It was the future caressing the present ; 
it was the shadow of Heaven, filled with music and beau- 
tiful spirits, shining on the earth to light the chamber of 
death with 

FAITH AND HOPE. 

After years of toil, she passes away happy. She has a 
Heaven to go to, because all that is lovely and pure is 
before her, and has filled her with dreams of happiness. 

Her dreams are no longer dreams, they are realities. 

She has lived under a sacred influence so long, it con- 
trols and guides her; under this influence she received 
light and strength to stand the battle of life ; under this 
influence she has gathered strength to meet the future. 
She lived in a dream started by love, which ended in faith 
stronger than any stone fortress ever built, and with this 
faith she faces eternity. 

Infinite power cannot wipe out the fact that her 
thoughts have followed and been with those she loved in 
the far beyond. 

Infinite power cannot wipe out the fact that her 
thoughts are a part of her being, and the intelligence by 
which she is guided. 

In her thoughts she has stood by the crystal water of 
living springs. In her thoughts she has heard the music 



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of angelic hosts ; she has traveled from star to star like 
a sunbeam, and walked in golden streets with her dear 
one ; and she cannot be robbed of her faith and hope, for 
in her thoughts, and every part of her intelligent nature, 
she has seen and felt for herself and drank from the well- 
spring of the heart in proof of it. 

Faith is the simplest and oldest of all sciences. 

Everything in creation has a good or bad influence; 
the only thing needed is intelligence to select the right 
association or influence to be under or with. 

When people who have never looked or been in cer- 
tain directions, who have never been under certain in- 
fluences, or had faith in certain things, tell what is, or 
what is not, they might as well shut their eyes and try 
to count the stars, or say there are no stars because they 
could not see them with closed eyes. 

The minute one has faith in anything, good or bad, 
the effect is as instantaneous as electricity. For as soon 
as possessed of faith, you are under the influence of that 
in which you believe — otherwise you do not believe. 

When the scientific preacher operates on one blind to 
faith, he will not use chloroform. 

Want of faith is a peculiar kind of blindness. A pa- 
tient may be able to see some objects clearly, and others 
not at all. When the scientific preacher treats this 
trouble he will operate on the mind, not the eyes. He 



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will operate so the patient can see the future clearly by 
putting new thoughts in his head and getting him to 
throw his old ones away. 

Like everything else, faith rests upon natural law. 

Faith is a belief that something exists or will exist. 

Hope is a desire to attain that something. One might 
believe, in fact know, that a certain thing existed, and 
not have the slightest hope of attaining it — in fact, know 
it could not be attained. 

Many have faith there is gold in the earth. But every- 
one does not hope to dig it out. In fact, the majority 
know they will not. 

To have faith there must be knowledge, or belief, that 
something exists or can be made to exist. 

Hope exists when knowledge is entirely absent. These 
are the generations of 

FAITH AND HOPE. 

Want begets desire; desire begets love; love begets 
hope; hope begets faith. 

When one has strong faith that something exists, and 
hopes to attain it, 

CHARITY 

is called in to make it possible. For experience teaches 
that about ten thousand falls will occur, if the road is very 
long, before a desired end is reached. 



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And without Charity, to encourage the one hoping for 
higher things not to mind the many failures, he would 
lose faith and fall by the wayside. 

The Scientific Preacher will interpret the Bible through 
Natural Law. 



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CHAPTER XXIV. 
A CONCLUSION. 

It is safe to go on the principle that if the first words 
spoken to man are not true the Bible might as well be 
put aside. 

But when the first words are found to agree with the 
laws and order of creation it is not necessary to look 
farther for the truth, for the truth is found. 

One word of truth lasts forever, for all things are gov- 
erned by it. 

That the way to "dominion" is to "replenish the earth 
and subdue it" is clear, for from this source the hungry 
are fed and the naked clothed. 

Upon this text the world must stand or fall. 

The effort should be to beautify the earth for the bene- 
fit of man and the glory of his Maker. 

When the Creator looks down upon the earth He 
wants to see a beauty spot, inhabited by intelligent be- 
ings. He wants to see happy homes, filled with peace 
and love ; this is the natural desire of a Father. 

The text is sufficient to furnish work for every hand 
and heart through time to come. 



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It is inspiring because infinite ; it is impressive because 
it embraces every part of nature and all industry. The 
life of man has scarcely served to introduce it. 

When the Bible agrees with natural law it is self-in- 
terpreting. 

Where a passage presents the truth, so the truth is 
seen and felt, it inspires confidence in the whole book. 

It is impossible to examine any work with interest 
or understanding without the key to the front door. 

The Bible is a book based upon cause and effect; 
otherwise it could not stand. It is founded on principle, 
not fancy; fact, not prejudice; truth, not favoritism. 

The reason so many lose the way is that illustrations 
used to present the truth are taken for the truth. They 
look at the story told to illustrate the truth, instead of 
the truth illustrated by the story. 

Its strength and grandeur is in making life cover Time 
and Space. 

It teaches faith in a Supreme Intelligence and hope 
of future happiness. This doctrine is beautiful, taught 
or found anywhere. 

It is beautiful, because it makes man what he wants to 
be and should be, a great being with a great future. 

It is beautiful, because it makes God what He should 
be, a Great Being, possessing supreme love and wisdom. 

The' characters introduced and stories told to illus- 



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trate truths and principles found in the Bible are another 
thing. 

There are men today a thousand times smarter than 
some characters in the Bible ; but to illustrate a principle 
or show a truth they could not do any better than the 
poorest one in it. 

Take the story of Jacob for instance. There is nothing 
in Jacob's life or character to stamp him as a great man ; 
but the teaching illustrated through him is sublime. 

Jacob, as a man, was an exceedingly common char- 
acter. He left home a poor boy, as thousands of poor 
boys leave home today, to seek a fortune. He slept in 
the wilderness on pillows of stone — tramps are doing the 
same all over the country. He started in life by tending 
sheep for his board ; this was very honorable. He took 
two women for fourteen years' labor ; as a man of busi- 
ness he does not show up any brighter than some men 
of today. 

But the truth illustrated through him is beyond daubt. 

He dreamed he saw a ladder set upon the earth, the 
top of which reached to Heaven, and that the Angels of 
God ascended and descended on it. 

Here is a boy, who left home to escape a brother's 
wrath, in a wilderness, full of fear and trembling ; but he 
dreamed he saw angels ascending and descending. 

This is sublime because it connects earth with Heaven, 



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the present with the future and life with hope. It is 
beautiful because true, and grand because man wants and 
needs it. 

He is alone and a sinner. Seeing angels, even in a 
dream, has had an effect upon the whole world, and will 
continue to have. 

Jacob's life as a sheep herder is very remote from the 
principles of the Bible, save only as it shows that every 
man must work for a living, and he was man enough to 
doit. 

Seeing angels in a dream was as good as any other 
way as long as through this means a connection between 
the present and the future was discovered. 

God is either everywhere or nowhere; all things or 
nothing. He must be recognized by poor boys as well 
as bishops or He is not God to all. 

But he is God to all, and a 

TIME AND SPACE GOD AT THAT. 

He impressed Jacob in a dream with the future of life. 
It was only in a dream, but it was a truth. One he 
could not keep still about. And by following the dis- 
covery made through this dream he gained great strength 
and glory. 

If a man should discover a gold mine he would not 
have to be very intelligent to tell about it ; he would have 
to be very wise to keep still. And it would not affect 






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the gold, either in quantity or quality, whether the dis- 
coverer was black or white ; whether he dreamed it out 
or dug it out, if the gold was only there when the world 
came to look to see if it was true. 

The life of Jacob cuts no figure, beyond the fact that 
he discovered and repeated an everlasting truth; some- 
thing of wonderful importance. 

And if he had married an old maid, thirty years older 
than himself, and never had any sons, and had seen 
angels in the woods or on the prairie, the Bible would 
be just as great and grand as though God had come down 
and walked around on earth and put up posters that He 
was here. 

Jacob was a discoverer. Instead of discovering a new 
continent he discovered angels and reported it to the 
world; and everyone has been looking for, and wanting 
to be, an angel ever since. 



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CHAPTER XXV. 
OUR BEAUTY AND STRENGTH. 

A view is only grand and inspiring where one can see 
in all directions. Life is only grand and inspiring when 
it is connected and can be seen on all sides, where past 
history makes for it future light. Life is grand where 
it harmonizes with the trinity of time; where the past 
and present stand hand in hand like loving twins wait- 
ing to embrace their elder sister, the future. 

What is man without a future? 

What is a country without a future? 

What is a God without a future? 

The future of America is an important subject. 

This nation is the hope of mankind, and it will never 
be blotted out as long as the "base idea" is 

THE UNMORTGAGED HOME ON THE SOIL, 

and the colors in the American flag stand for the trinity 
of patriotism. 

It is an impressive fact that the founders of this gov- 
ernment adopted a national emblem representing the 
principles of the trinity. 



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This shows that from association, if not from educa- 
tion, the patriots were under the influence and inspiration 
of nature and natural law. 

It would be easy to read from nature why the Ameri- 
can flag was adopted, if not a word had been written or 
spoken in reference to it. 

Here is its Natural Law History: 

When the soldiers of 1776 were fighting for liberty 
their thoughts were elevated above tyranny as high as 
the stars, and, as expressive of this thought, the stars 
of Heaven are found on our national emblem. 

When the patriots poured out their blood for inde- 
pendence, a's the stream of life ebbed away on the field 
of battle, they closed their eyes in death, looking into 
the blue sky. 

The undying blood of patriotism, shed for right, justice 
and country, resting upon purity of principle and faith 
in the Ruler of the gilded Heavens, is expressed in "red, 
whitd and blue" on the American flag. 

Our flag is a perfect and most glorious trinity, sug- 
gested and brought forth by nature and natural condi- 
tions surrounding the lives of the American Fathers. 

If the Deity Himself had handed down an emblem to 
the American people, with a note of explanation, He 
could not have delivered a more perfect representation 
of principle. The principle of the trinity represented 



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by the American Flag is the principle upon which all 
f things are founded. 

The American Flag is not only a national but a 

NATURAL EMBLEM. 

It not only represents country, but life and universe. 
If the fathers had studied six months or longer to 
« decide upon an emblem, they would at last have settled 
..on this one, for all conditions and surroundings sug- 
| gested it. 

If the blood of patriotism, the pure white thoughts of 
principle, the blue sky above, filled with stars, had not 
suggested it, the white man between blue days ahead 
of him and red-skinned Indians sneaking up behind him 
with a tomahawk would have suggested the idea of 

"RED, WHITE AND BLUE." 

Then there was the red fire and blue smoke of the 
cannon that blew the life out of "white livered" Royal- 
ists ; this was very suggestive of "red,white and blue." 

The British soldiers who wore red coats with white 
belts around them, carrying the white flag of surrender, 
with a deep blue look upon their faces when they laid 
down their arms and went home to tell how it hap- 
pened, was very suggestive of "red, white and blue," and 
; a trinity of colors suggesting thoughts to be preserved in 
a flag. 



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There was too much "red, white and blue" all around 
about that time to very well see or think of anything 
else, and these colors naturally float over us. 

National history can be interpreted through natural 
law, as well as the Bible. 

In addition to the trinity of colors suggested by nature 
and natural law, 

THE AMERICAN EAGLE 

was given a place as a National emblem for the same 
reason. Natural conditions suggested this bird to go 
with the flag. 

When nature backs a forefather, or any other father, 
he is an "up-to-date" parent. 



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CHAPTER XXVI. 
THE KING OF BEASTS. 




The Representative of Great Britain at Home and Abroad. 



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Great Britain believes in Kings ; she not only believes 
in them, but raises and keeps a stock on hand, so that 
if one dies or happens to play out in any way, another 
stands ready to slip right into the harness and go on 
with the royal coach. 

The English are something like the balance of hu- 
manity, more or less greedy and grasping. They were 
not satisfied with having two-legged kings to sit on a 
throne and stand around waiting to be called to get on, 
and by marrying and intermarrying to preserve what 
they call "Royal Blood," but they went out into the 
woods and got a great big chuckle-headed animal called 

THE KING OF BEASTS, 

and adopted him as a representative of their nation. 

They set this animal king up on his hind legs. To 
make him look imposing they put a double twist in his 
tail, and to make him look more like themselves they 
put a snarl on his face to show their character. 

Anything that has the appearance of being a king 
they have a great respect for and want as a member of 
their royal set. They took the king of beasts as a rep- 
resentative of royalty, on account not only of his royal 
strength but his royal capacity to roar and growl. 

This four-legged, yellow-haired, bushy-headed king 
which they caught and took out of the woods was taken 



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to be emblematic of the greatest people on earth — which 
they supposed was them — in a dangerous form ; but on 
looking around they found they were mistaken. 

It was supposed that this yellow-haired, four-legged 
king would so impress all the nations and animals on 
earth, as to how they w T ould be eaten up and torn to 
pieces if not careful, that everybody and everything would 
run and get out of the way when they saw an Englishman 
coming ; that no one would ever bother him on account 
of being terribly afraid that the people represented by 
this king of beasts would chew them up. 

This lord and king of the forest — their representative 
at home and abroad — has very long, strong claws. He 
can claw anything all to pieces — after catching it. 

But he has to catch it before clawing it — this is where 
he sometimes goes hungry. 

When our forefathers saw this last king that was to 
be overcome, it made a deep impression on them, and 
they concluded to get a king of their own to match it. 

And instead of going out into the woods to look around 
for some coarse four-footed beast in a den, they took the 
King of the Air. 



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CHAPTER XXVII. 
THE KING OF THE AIR. 




The American Eagle. 



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THE AMERICAN EAGLE. 

They did not have to look beyond a hemlock tree in 
the State of Maine to find a good king to represent this 
country; one not only with claws, but wings. 

So they took the King of the Air and put it up to 
match the King of Beasts, and that bird has roosted 
over the lion's den for over a hundred years without los- 
ing a feather. 

The lion is a dangerous animal to meet alone without 
a gun; he has caught rabbits asleep, he has feasted on 
the sweet flesh of the monkey, and bit off the end of 
the elephant's tail when the elephant was not aware he 
was at that end of him. But the lion has never yet feasted 
on an eagle, and never will, till one is found dead some- 
where from old age. 

Our forefathers knew a winning king when they saw 
it. They took one that walks on two legs like a man ; 
one that sits and walks up straight; one that can stay 
on the ground or soar in the air beyond the reach of 
harm; they did not take an animal that prowls around 
in the woods, lives in a hole in the ground and sleeps 
on its belly. 

The influence of the eagle as a national emblem has 
been very wholesome and great. 

It is a bird of freedom, representing the spirit and 
idea of a free people who want to be that kind of a nation. 



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The way this bird conducts itself, as the representative of 
what a free man ought to be and should be, makes every 
American a patriot and fighter. 

Bringing out the American Eagle and letting it fly 
around a little at this particular time is not for the pur- 
pose of annoying our friends and neighbors ; it is to show 
how our forefathers were guided by Nature and Natural 
Law in forming the government and selecting national 
emblems. 

As their object and idea about the whole thing was 
freedom ; as that was what they had their guns out fight- 
ing for, they naturally took something that was able to 
stand up and make a first-class fight as an emblem to 
represent this idea. 

If they had been trying to save a crown, they might 
have rolled one down in a hole with a yellow lion and 
told the ambitious fellow who was aspiring to carry 
around such a thing that he could have it by going down 
in the hole and bringing it out. 

I am for the English-speaking people — because that 
is the only language I can speak. 

And if those folks were in a corner and needed a little 
help, for a few days only, and I could do them any good, 
rather than see another nation that could not talk Eng- 
lish humiliate them — without they had done something 
terribly wrong — I would go to war to help them out. 



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The English people should be more than proud of 
Americans. 

An American shows what an Englishman can become, 
when he has a chance. 

The thoroughbred American is an Englishman who 
has whipped another Englishman. 

It took Englishmen to whip Englishmen ; they should 
be very thankful for and appreciate this, as a credit to 
their own blood; that it was not done by some cheap 
race or nation that did not feel proud of being English. 

It is a cold day when something cannot be found for 
which to be thankful. 



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CHAPTER XXVIII. 
THE GREAT NORTHWEST. 

To judge a nation, it must be looked at in the light 
of Time and Space. 

Under this light, the United States occupies a pecu- 
liarly great and grand position in the history of nations. 
It is great and strong because formed at the right time 
and under the right influences to make it so. 

It has grown great and strong, and keeps growing that 
way, because of space in which to grow. Because sur- 
rounded by conditions suggesting great ideas, and be- 
cause great things have been and are still present to 
support them. 

The United States is the Earth working upon man to 
develop him. It is the Earth changing its face by calling 
on man to do it. It is the Earth forcing man through 
his wants to contribute to her beauty and transformation. 
In return for this forced attention it furnishes him sup- 
port. 

The United States has been the land of promise ever 
since discovered, and promises now more than ever. 

It is the land of promise, because for generations it 



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has furnished, and for years will continue to furnish, 
homes with happiness attachments. 

The time to shape a policy is at the beginning, when 
there is time and space in which to develop it. 

In the beginning, when man was an infant, the policy 
was formed by which he was to live and grow. 

THIS WAS THE WORK OF A WISE FATHER. 

Experience teaches that it is easier to bring up a boy 
right than to make a hardened old sinner over. Train- 
ing a child is not only pleasanter but easier than reform- 
ing the villain and animating the loafer. 

When once hardened, reforming the villain and mak- 
ing over the sinner is like making over an old coat full 
of holes to get a new one. 

Every condition now says that man must follow the 
policy established by the Father of all. 

Listen! Hark! Who is that calling? 

It is a voice calling Adam in the garden, "Where art 
thou?" 

"Lord, here I am, upside down and wrongside out. I 
have been kicking and finding fault about everything, 
until here I am. I don't like that condition called hard 
labor, and I can't live by sitting still ; washing is too 
high, the board poor, the bed too hard for a dog to sleep 
on. If I meet a millionaire, I think he has robbed me; 



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if I meet a tramp, I am afraid he is going to beg from 
me, when I am without a dollar for myself; and Lord, 
here I am, full of trouble. It is hard to be shut up as a 
clerk, and it is lonesome and dry living in the country; 
I don't like to milk cows, feed hogs or clean out stables, 
and I can't live on nothing. 

"I can't see any beauty in a flower or star. There is 
no comfort in existence, and when I die I am put in a hole 
in the ground, and can't see beyond that. Here I am, 
oh Lord, in trouble, grunting and grumbling, dissatis- 
fied and unhappy. Lord, what did you make me and 
the world for, anyway? We don't fit together." 

It is not strange man was left in the world to work 
for himself, to satisfy and please himself, to become a 
consumer for a cigar manufacturer or to walk around the 
streets with a sign on his back advertising a corn cure. 

If he hears of someone who has paid out extravagant 
sums for parties, jewelry, flowers, or high prices for 
servants, this does not suit, because the money, accord- 
ing to his way of thinking, did not go in the right direc- 
tion. But the diamond man, servants and flower girls 
who received high prices think it did; so there it is. 
This condition is general. 

Children are dwarfed for want of pure air and look 
like plants grown in the shade; able-bodied men are 
hungry in cities ; business men are staggering under loads 



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of debt, trying to keep out of bankruptcy ; good people 
are willing to work; the country is full of everything, 
and yet there is complaint, suffering and discontent. This 
is ridiculous — absolutely ridiculous — to be in the United 
States. 

It is the result of false education and want of knowledge 
of the truth, of natural law and natural advantages. 

By looking at the map of the United States, 

THE GREAT NORTHWEST 

is seen standing like a large fat cow, with her broad rear 
end against Canada and her head toward the Gulf of 
Mexico. 

It is well known that all the porterhouse, sirloin, ten- 
derloin, milk, cream, butter and cheese are taken from the 
rear end of the cow. 

The reason why the Great Northwest is so full of 
wealth and opportunities is, it is the 

UDDER END OF THE EARTH. 

It is the end containing the juicy meat and rich cream. 

Everyone knows without being told that the horny, 
gristly, bristly end is not the tender end. 

Everyone knows without being told that cream is not 
extracted from the horns. The horny end is the fodder 
consumer; the udder end is the treasury. 



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That people in northern latitudes are more prosperous 
and enteprising than elsewhere is not due so much to 
the superiority of the people when they start, as to the 
climate and soil back of them. The best man on earth 
could not survive without air to breathe and soil to 
support him ; and the poorest would do well where wealth 
can be picked up out of the earth. 

The reason people are so broad-gauged, prosperous 
and happy in the Great Northwest is, they are on the 

UDDER END OF THE EARTH. 

The first thing a calf looks for is the udder. And it is 
not surprising that people who are supposed to be in- 
telligent should know as much as a calf, and look around 
and get on to the Udder End of the Earth to fatten. 

The udder is something worthy of profound thought 
and deep investigation, whether hung on the rear end 
of a cow or the northwestern end of the United States. 

CLIMATE AND SOIL 

are of wonderful assistance in helping accumulate happi- 
ness and other useful things. 

The reason why people are so happy and prosperous 
in the Great Northwest is that they are not left entirely 
to their own discretion about becoming so. 



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THE EARTH 

is a natural born boss out here, and helps drive every- 
thing along. While it does not indulge in loud talk on 
all occasions, it seems to have a silent appreciation that 
everything else rests upon and depends upon it. It has 
a wonderful influence over man, because he can't set his 
foot down without stepping on it. It sets him such stern 
and stirring examples that he is completely under its in- 
fluence. 

The earth is round, and keeps right on going around 
every day without stopping to rest, and that is the rea- 
son everybody and everything has to do the same to live 
and keep up with it. 

When people quit going around on the earth it is hard 
to tell where they do go. 

The earth moves at a high rate of speed. Those on 
it have to do the same or get behind and take all the 
dirt. 

People are prosperous and happy in 

THE GREAT NORTHWEST 

because the climate and soil are desperately opposed to 
loafers. A man can't loaf here and do well ; the earth 
gives him dead away. She points her finger at a loafer 
in scorn and contempt as far as she can see him, and 
weeds grow higher than his head to mock him. 



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It is not uncommon to see great big rank weeds point 
their leaves and shake their seedy he&ds at a loafer, just 
as though they knew he was afraid of them, and say, in 
their weed language, "Unless you get down and kiss the 
face of Mother Earth, and love and embrace her, you 
are not wanted here. If you will not do this, you are not 
any better than we are, and Mother thinks just as much of 
us as of you." 

After listening to remarks of this kind from a weed 
preacher, it is not an uncommon thing to see a loafer 
turn pale and go loafing right on about his business. 

The earth despises loafers and snubs them out here 
most fearfully every time she gets a chance. She is a 
regular "spotter," and tells the truth, no matter who is 
hit or how they feel afterwards. 

There is too much climate here to live in an open house 
and look shabby in the winter. This is why people have 
their houses in such good order. It is the suggestion of 
natural forces. The climate demands enterprise and will 
not accept anything else. Those who do not understand 
this, sometimes think it is due entirely to the enterprise 
of the inhabitants alone, but the climate does its full 
share in helping make a good appearance here. 

Where whole communities grow bright-eyed and walk 
with a quick cheerful step, strangers passing through 
wonder where in the world such people came from, 



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where they were educated and who their parents were; 
but are surprised to find them but animated manifesta- 
tions of air and soil. 

One does not have to be on earth long, especially this 
part of it, to become very much attached to and impressed 
by it. 

Everybody likes the earth, because they cannot live 
off of it. 

The earth is so wisely and wonderfully formed, and 
occupies such an important place in creation, that it is 
impossible not to love it; it is gotten up in a way cal- 
culated to arouse the affections of even a worm. 

It is a blessed good thing it is inanimate. If it was 
not, it would hurt it to have so many people, and animals 
with hoofs, and railroads, and heavy buildings, standing 
around and running around on it. If the earth had feel- 
ing, it would be very unfortunate. It would cast a gloom 
over everything. If it had feeling, it would yell like a 
boy with a sore toe every time it was touched. If it had 
feeling, there would be a constant shout going up every- 
where, 

"KEEP OFF THE GRASS." 

This would make everybody feel like a fool, and out 
of place. 

The unfeeling nature of the earth is a blessing most 



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people overlook and never stop to be thankful for. If 
they stop, it is to smoke or play cards or something of 
that kind — not to be thankful for real blessings. 

In nature, origin and influence, the earth occupies a 
field by itself. 

One cannot look at or study it very long without be- 
coming deeply impressed with the order of Creation or 
getting very full of schemes. 

He will either fall down and worship the One who 
made it or go to inventing some kind of a tool to work 
it with, or sell to someone else to work with, so he can 
get rich making tools instead of using them. 

The earth, as a subject to write or speak upon, is as 
broad as it is to live on. It is so large and accommodat- 
ing as a subject, it is impossible to get off of it. That 
is the reason why we are here and like it so well. 

You can talk about a white elephant in the wilds of 
Siam, an eagle soaring against the sky, the American 
flag, a four-legged king lying by the side of a throne, or 
a two-legged one sitting on top of it ; the money ques- 
tion, matrimony, or any subject you really know or don't 
know about, and all are connected with the earth and 
earthy. What greater elasticity could be asked than this 
in a subject to accommodate thought? 



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CHAPTER XXIX. 
WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT IS SEEN. 

The Great Northwest, as revealed through the light of 
time, is a mirror wherein the world can be seen, and see 
itself. 

By examining the path that has led to the development 
of the American people, we find it to be the open field, 
inviting the world to come and enjoy the sunshine of man • 
hood and nationhood. 

Natural conditions are the basis of our National growth. 

THE GREAT NORTHWEST 

is a book containing wonderful things. 

From the unoccupied space in it, we read the secrets of 
time and mysteries of creation and find the silver key to 
the gate of progress ; the crown of man's growth. 

That which is, must decide that which is to be. 

Man's destiny on earth must be decided by the earth. 
Being on the earth, the earth must decide his destiny. 

From the book called 

THE GREAT NORTHWEST 
we read that free open territory invited the first settlers 



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to the country. That free open territory enabled the 
colonies to establish a free government. 

That free government and open territory combined has 
enabled the country to reach its present size and strength. 

One hundred and twenty-two years after signing the 
Declaration of Independence, the American people are 
found at the jumpijig-off place. 

They are not only brought to the Great Northwest but 
to the northwest quarter of the last quarter of their pos- 
sessions, possessing original and golden advantages. 

WE STAND HERE CONSCIOUS OF TRUTH. 

We are where it is like making a last will and testament 
in recognition of approaching changes. 

Where it is like a man seeing around him not only his 
children, but his grand and great grand children. 

That which we see as new faces and new features is 
but development revealing truth. 

It is man's relation to creation coming to light through 
his growth. 

The colonies that started on the shores of the Atlantic 
are now hovering on the shores of 

THE PACIFIC 

So far as territory is concerned, the American people 
know it all ; have kept all they ever possessed and added 



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to it ; there is nothing left to discover but hidden treasures 
in the earth, and that which can be gotten out of it by 
labor. 

We read from the book called the Great Northwest 
that the future of America must be self-improvement, — 
the upbuilding of country and home on lines of honor 
and justice. 

We read that the truth is not only coming but here, — 
made manifest through man's relation to the earth. 

The natural desire used to be, increase of numbers. 

The concern now is, how to make all classes see and follow 

the truth. 

Unless this prevails progression cannot be in the right 

direction. The truth is seen in the mirror called 
THE GREAT NORTHWEST, 

by reason of man being able to compare his own size to 
that of the earth; by being made conscious of his relation 
to space through time. 

Through development, man is reflected as a light and 
force in creation ; seeing this makes him conscious of 
Divine Truth. 

"BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY." 

Divine truth is recognized here, because the First 
Words are in harmony with man's growth and natural 
desire. 



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Divine truth is recognized here, because natural desire 
has developed through time into a conscious force 
throughout the world. Elements planted in man have 
grown to infinite size, making man conscious, through 
his nature, of Divine Truth. 

"AND REPLENISH THE EARTH AND SUBDUE 

IT." 

Here Divine Truth is recognized again through man's 
wants and desires. 

The earth being the only place to which he can go to 
meet his wants, the truth is shown through this rela- 
tion. As farther evidence, time, creation, and life are 
linked together by this command. 

Multiplying is a work of time. It is also necessary to 
"subdue." 

But, as multiplying keeps multiplying, 

WHAT? 

By reason of man growing and the earth not, the waves 
of life, in time, must cover the earth like an inundation. 

Thousands are now found in cellars and the numbers 
in upper stories and attics are increasing daily. 

Natural Law says that from this on, life will pour down 
thicker and faster, because of the fountain's constant 
growth, broader and deeper. 



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The future of our country rests upon the unoccupied 
space in it and the conduct of those in the space occupied. 

After the unoccupied space is taken, the foundation 
must be virtue and intelligence alone. 

A republican form of government rests on the virtue 
and intelligence of the people — on that of the individual. 
The strain on the foundation must be greater in the future 
than the past, because of more population and no greater 
space. While people grow in numbers, the earth remains 
the same in size. 

As space fills up, the price of living room will be in pro- 
portion to numbers. 

When more people have to occupy the same room and 
bed, if virtue and intelligence do not prevail, there will 
be terrible discord, discontent and crime. 

As long as space continues open and opportunities in 
sight, the pressure of steam in the boiler of life cannot 
gather. But when filled up, virtue and intelligence must 
be the foundation or the boiler will burst and blow up 
all society. 

Man must have a future to look to, to sustain him. 

Without this, he is like a wagon standing still, full of 
passengers, going nowhere. 

The life of the United States has been freedom and free 
homes. With this to stimulate growth, fortune hunting 
and money-making have filled the minds of the masses to 



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such an extent, many dangers and imperfections have 
been overlooked. 

But as space fills up, imperfections are becoming 
noticeable and calling for correction. After all good fields 
are occupied, which will not be long, the future will 
depend upon the fulfillment of natural and Divine law. 

Then, the question will be, not the establishment of lib- 
erty ; for that is established. It will be the maintenance 
of liberty; of keeping that which we have; not letting it 
get away through anarchy, dry rot, or other cause. 

The future, not only of this country, but the world, de- 
pends upon man following the Divine way to "dominion." 

The nature and value of the Great Northwest is just be- 
ginning to be realized and appreciated. From this on, it 
will grow in importance ; developments will be brought 
to light from this source, beyond anything yet imagined. 

Great things must come from here, because in the earth 
to be gotten out. Because they have, been seen and felt, 
and are known to be here. 

They must come from here, because it is a country of 
inspiration, as well as great and varied resources; and 
because the resources are the cause of the inspiration. 

They must come from here, because inspiration is a 
natural product of the climate and soil. 

The future of our country must be shaped and decided 
very largely from conditions found here. 



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In the first place, this is the only open territory left in 
which to work out certain ends. 

In the second place, the light of the world shines upon 
this particular part of creation, giving it the advantage of 
all man's growth and experience. 

In resources, it is the richest part of the globe, and the 
only territory that is grand and magnificent, open for 
settlement, surrounded by modern civilization. 

There is territory enough in undesirable localities, ruled 
over by despots and inhabited or surrounded by savages, 
where none but a slave or savage would care to live. 

But there is only one Great Northwest under the sun, 
where a man with manhood and hope of the future would 
care to make a home. 

The start cannot be made too soon to build upon the 

"BASE IDEA." 

Conditions are in evidence everywhere, not only of its 
importance, but that time will establish it. 

The truth is revealed and the future read, from simplest 
and clearest causes. 

When two bodies are placed together, one of which ex- 
pands and the other does not, it is only a question of 
time when the expanding body will cover the other, no 
matter how small it may be at the start. If expansion is 
continuous, size will be unlimited. 



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Man being an expanding body, and the earth not, it is 
clear that in time man must cover 

THE EARTH. 

Then the grand work will be the perfection of man by 
himself through natural forces. 

This has been going on ever since man was made, but 
will go faster, and become more universal, with time. 
The effect of man's growth upon himself and the earth is 
read from natural law. 

As there is but one foundation on which all can stand, 
and as happiness depends upon all standing on this, in 
love, it is easy to see as numbers keep crowding on the 
same foundation, within the same space, that there must 
be perfect knowledge and recognition of true conditions 
to maintain harmony. 

As man grows broader, thicker, taller and heavier, for 
centuries to come, he will have to be in honor and wisdom, 
like an expert wire-walker to balance himself on the earth 
in peace. 

It is only a question of time when through develop- 
ment man will be in this condition. 

It is only a question of time when all parts of him will 
come together. When those parts now scattered over 
the past, in different parts of space, will be found in 



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DEVELOPED MAN. 

As God made but one man, and that one is still alive 
and growing, it is only a question of time when the parts 
now under the earth, will be united with those above the 
earth. When fully developed through time, man will be 
one of the most interesting and important works in crea- 
tion. 

Then every breath he draws will be entertaining and 

instructive. 

He will then be a genuine attraction on the lecture plat- 
form. When developed, each thought will be the life of 
some individual from birth to the present moment. 

Developed man will tell how one feels perishing in 
flames. 

What a martyr sees and thinks about as his flesh turns 
to ashes. 

How one feels being drowned; when going to the 
bottom of the ocean to sleep beneath the waves for thou- 
sands of years, to dream among the inhabitants of the 
sea. 

If the individual perished by freezing, how he felt turn- 
ing to ice. If murdered, the feeling when hit by a bullet 
or stabbed by a knife. 

It is a law of nature that two bodies cannot occupy the 
same space at the same time, consequently it is impossible 
for two people to be and look just alike in every par- 
ticular. 



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Space being the mother of life, no two are just alike, 
because never in the same space at the same time. 

Being under a different influence by reason of a differ- 
ent relation to Mother Space in reference to time, each 
one does have, and must have, a different surrounding; 
consequently a different look. Occupying different parts 
of space places everyone in a different position, if not in 
a different relation to life. 

THIS IS NATURAL LAW. 

If two people were six thousand miles, or only six 
inches apart, they would occupy different parts of space. 

The greater distance would make a greater difference 
in looks and habits, but there would be enough difference 
six inches apart to tell them apart. 

Instead of being a resident of some frontier, or back- 
woods county or a local politician, 

DEVELOPED MAN 

will be an inhabitant of the universe. He will visit and 
receive visitors from other worlds. 

But before doing this, ho must complete his growth 
by finishing his work here. He must "replenish the earth 
and subdue it." He can only progress in the order of 
creation, as he follows creation's order — this is Natural 
Law. He must do this whether he wants to or not. 



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When fully developed, man will not look at one little 
spot as the 

GARDEN OF EDEN. 

The whole earth was, and will again be, a garden, cov- 
ered with fruit, flowers and singing birds. When man 
was put on earth it was no larger, in the eye of the 

CREATOR, 

than a dew-drop on a beautiful rose, sparkling in the 
morning sun. Just having been made, everything was 
fresh and in full bloom. 

When man was made everything had a divine fragrance 
and grandeur, because nothing had gone to decay. The 
earth was in a smiling- state of infancy, tinted by hues put 
on by the Master Artist himself. 

It was all a garden. Man could not have put his foot 
down without being in one filled with beauties. 

But when trees shed their leaves and flowers faded, 
when birds went to another clime, man found himself in 
a changed condition. 

When he looked upon withered grass and heard the 
wind sigh through bare branches above him, he was lone- 
some indeed. 



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THE EARTH WAS NO LONGER A GARDEN. 

It was a dreary solitude, through which he must toil 
and plod for centuries, driven by want and haunted by 
sorrow, looking for the God who made him. 

He had everything to learn and accumulate. Through 
time and development he is becoming master of the situ- 
ation. 

The future is foreshadowed and read through the Great 
Northwest, by seeing unoccupied space here being con- 
stantly filled by the growth of man ; this condition reveals 
the truth ; the filling of space by the growth of man is as 
plainly seen as the growth of vegetation. The result of 
which is proof of the text under consideration. 



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CHAPTER XXX. 
MY COAT OF ARMS. 




When you see it do not ask: 'To what lodge do you 
belong?" 

Not any. Was never in any, not even a wigwam. Do 
not know a pass word or sign of any order. 

My coat of arms represents neither a religious, secret 
nor political organization. 



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It represents the broad principle of creation. 

A principle older than man ; one that will stand long 
after present man has left the Earth. 

It represents the principle of the Trinity — a principle 
embracing all things. 

MY COAT OF ARMS IS THE PERFECT TRI- 
ANGLE. 

It is three inches wide ; the sum of the angles is three 
feet; it has three sides and three edges, and is painted 
three colors, in honor of the American Flag. 

By having three colors, just as many trinities can be 
found on it as there were holy apostles. 

The three outer angles represent the Universal Trinity. 

Eternal Time, Eternal Space and Eternal Life. 

The three inner angles represent the trinity of the family 
circle. 

Father, mother and offspring. 

The colors on the base represent the trinity of time. 

The past, the present and the future. 

The colors on the right elevation represent the trinity 
of man. 

Man being the fruit of the union between God and the 
earth, this trinity is God, earth and spirit. 

The colors on the left elevation represent the trinity of 
nature. 



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The animate, the inanimate and the conscious -animate. 
The three sides, on one side represent the trinity of life. 
Which is inception, conception and birth. 

TURN IT OVER. 

The three sides now presented represent the trinity of 
friendship. 

Which is sympathy, truth and love. 

The colors on the base represent the trinity of home. 

Which is earth, labor and fruit. 

The colors on the right elevation represent the trinity of 
industry. 

Which is agriculture, manufacturing and commerce. 

The colors on the left elevation represent the trinity of 
happiness. 

Which is God, country and home. 

The three outer points represent the trinity of salvation. 

Which is faith, hope and charity. 

The three inner angles represent the trinity of Govern- 
ment. 

Which is manhood, brotherhood and statehood. 

Trinities without end can be counted on the triangle. 

The triangle is not a handsome emblem or f.gure, but 
the most perfect representation of principle of anything 
known. 

As a coat of arms it does not represent the Reeve family 



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alone, but the great human family, — all in the Earth and 
upon it. 

By representing the principle of the trinity the triangle 
shows that which I am, — only at atom of the great whole, 
but a conscious atom. Through consciousness I am con- 
nected with and become a part of all. 

Being conscious makes man aware that his perfection 
depends upon helping make others perfect. Not until all 
are perfect, through consciousness and intelligence, will 
the creation of man be finished. 



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CHAPTER XXXI. 
AN APOSTLE AND A LOG CABIN. 

Man intelligently connected with nature is in the high- 
est relation to life. 

Man being only the conscious part of nature, or the 
intelligence through which nature communicates, the 
most exalted of all relations is the earth speaking through 
man; responding to labor and yielding fruit from 
thought. 

Science is but developed nature. 

Multiplied numbers is the necessity for "Man to till 
the ground." 

The earth is not only worthy of compliment, but demon- 
stration and ceremony. 

In honor of the One Who made it ; in honor of the first 
word spoken in reference to it ; in honor and truth being 
brought to light through the growth of man, I propose to 
honor the earth with a 

PUBLIC CEREMONY. 

My ceremony will consist in putting a log cabin, such 
as honest men used to live in, not to get out of debt, but 
to keep out, on wheels, under the American flag. It will 



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then be taken to the boundary line between the United 
States and Canada, turned around and driven the length 
of North Dakota. 

After driving from Neche to Wahpeton, it will be at 
the option of the writer to declare the ceremony over, or 
continue it on to the Gulf of Mexico — or in any direction 
his judgment may dictate. 

This book will be taken to meet expenses. 

If impossible to interest the people in it sufficiently to 
get food, milking cows, splitting wood, or any honorable 
work will be cheerfully performed, if necessary. 

Knowing the generosity of North Dakota people to- 
wards tramps, by having a movable cabin to sleep in by 
the roadside and horses trained to stand on picket ropes, 
the risk of getting from Neche to Wahpeton will be cheer- 
fully taken. The intention is to call at towns on the way ; 
but not impose upon the people. 

This ceremony is my way of expressing faith in the land 
on which we live. 

When people become convinced of certain things, faith 
is usually expressed by some kind of ceremony. In reli- 
gious matters, the ceremony may be sprinkling or dip- 
ping under water; or, it may be getting down on the 
knees and praying to an unseen power; or, it may be 
standing up and shouting in an excited manner, and 
making others think they are in danger of immediate de- 
struction. 



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My ceremony is purely and simply in honor of the earth 
and that which is believed to be true regarding it. 

It is in recognition of the fact that the growth of man 
means its occupancy; that the occupancy of the earth 
means subduing it ; that subduing it means man's perfec- 
tion on it ; which, in time, means Heaven, or the way to 
reach it. 

Subduing the earth, as the solution of the problem of 
society, as the unfoldment of the beauty and wisdom of 
creation, is altogether a different proposition from being 
a slave under a mortgage holder to support some one else 
on interest money. 

Building a house is from the ground up. Reform must 
be from the ground up. 

The man on the unmortgaged farm has freedom to act. 

Suppose one ever so competent, filling the place of an 
employe, under the bond of a Guaranty Company, should 
attempt to engage in reform against a corrupt employer. 
How long would he last? Just long enough to reach the 
street ; and he might not get employment again for five 
years. 

But if he had manhood enough to go on a piece of land, 
and dig his living out of the earth, he could not be dis- 
charged. He could support any opinion he pleased as 
long as willing to work, and would have influence with 
his neighbors. 



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A reformer must be independent of other classes to 
carry on a work of reform. The unmortgaged farmer is 
the strongest of all in this respect. His strength rests 
upon natural conditions not by way of personal favor 
from-some one who needs the assistance of a tool, who 
will kick him out as soon as through using him. 

A young man with ambition will never exchange an 
independent position on land to be a cheap slave under 
an employer. 

The unmortgaged farmer stands at the head by reason 
of natural law. 

MY COAT OF ARMS 

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will be on the sides of the cabin. 

A coat of arms might seem out of place on a log cabin, 
but when properly considered it is the most appropriate 
place of all for one. 

My cdat of arms does not represent what has been done 
only, but that which must be, and will be. 

The perfect triangle must be equal on all sides ; so must 
the trinity of existence. Man being the fruit of the union 
between God and the earth, the earth and man, forming 
two sides of the triangle, must become perfect to corre- 
spond with the third side. 

It is my belief that natural conditions will force man 



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to direct his attention to subduing the earth. Which is 
made clear by his growth. 

It is my belief that as soon as this is plainly seen by all, 
social and industrial conditions will change. 

It is my belief that as soon as this idea becomes fixed 
in the minds of the people as the "Base Idea," the nature 
and channels of thought will change accordingly — and all 
conditions will be more perfect. 

THE END. 

P. S. Please be looking for me. 






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